Groups and flags — Chernarus PvP
Your group is the claim, the flag, the garage signs and who gets the Raid Alert. Chernarus starts small on purpose. This page is PvP only.
Not the Sakhal ladder
Sakhal starts at 4 and goes to 10, with different flag spacing. If you play the island, use the Sakhal groups guide. Recruiting friends on Chernarus does not raise the cap — you pay in-game currency.
Create or join a group
Form a group in-game before you plant a flag. The flag is what lets you build and what marks the plot. For an underground bunker, the flag has to sit inside the underground — a surface flag does not cover rooms below.
Member cap: 3 → 6
A fresh Chernarus group has room for 3 players. Buy the next seats with in-game currency:
- Start: 3 players.
- Upgrade to 4 — 50 000.
- Upgrade to 5 — 75 000.
- Upgrade to 6 — 100 000. That is the cap. There is no 10-player Chernarus group.
Flags (separate from the raid window)
The flag is weekly upkeep, not a raid-day ritual. Raising it does not open or close the weekend raid window. The window is a calendar; the flag is a timer you keep alive all week — see raid weekend if you mixed the two.
- Maximum 2 flags per group.
- Plotpole radius: 70 m in the open.
- Keep 800 m from an allied group flag, 250 m from a hostile flag.
- Raise the flag at least every 3 days. Once raised it lasts up to 20 days.
- Walls do not decay on their own, but the claim still needs the flag up. A dropped flag is a lost base even on a Tuesday.
What the group actually gives you
- A shared group bank that grows as you level the group.
- Up to 2 group garage signs (plus 2 personal signs) — cargo is not saved on Chernarus store. See the Chernarus economy.
- Raid Alert Discord DMs go to linked members when the tower fires — Discord must be linked on the website profile.
Common Chernarus mistakes:
- Planting a flag before the group exists.
- Assuming you can copy Sakhal’s 4 → 10 ladder. You cannot.
- Thinking “Thursday = raise the flag”. Raise whenever the 3-day clock is due — Monday is as valid as Thursday.
- Digging a bunker hatch closer than 85 m to the flag — the shovel is refunded and you wasted the trip.
See also: raid weekend · Chernarus bases · how Chernarus works.