Hi everyone, I've played Taki Life years ago and came back recently to play, considering that this is the only Taki Life server with a population left I wanted to make an observation. The server is an RDM/VDM-fest. Cops kill cops, civs kill civs, insurgents kill everyone, OPFOR... well OPFOR just kinda sits there. Now RDM isn't allowed, obviously, but I think the reason why these problems happen is because the cops(BLUFOR) can't do their jobs, they can't do police stuff because they have insurgents to deal with 90% of the time. (Disclaimer: its also partly due to there being some stupid cops too).
Now, I wanna point out in my opinion what insurgents bring to the table because, in theory, it is a good faction and realistic since there are insurgents IRL. However, it isn't being implemented properly. Insurgents are just players that want to run around and blow shit up without following civilian rules. They are no different than civilian terrorists, except they are terrorists from the get-go. Here is what insurgents can do:
Take control of areas and RP inside them
Conduct terrorist attacks
Terrorist shit basically
So with that being what insurgents do, here is was civilian terrorists can do:
Take control of areas
Conduct terrorist attacks
Terrorist shit
See where I'm going with this?
Now there are people that play insurgents properly, take over towns, ask me if I'm Muslim etc, but that is so rare. 90% of the time they camp and snipe CPA or invade Rasman. Now you could say that BLUFOR and OPFOR have better weapons and armor and they can deal with them and that's true, but once you kill them they come back and the cycle repeats. I honestly think that the role of insurgent is just an excuse to kill cops/opfor/pmc and that while it has some pros, they are massively outweighed by the cons, which results in a faction that is detrimental to the small amount of RP left in the server.
Deleting the faction wouldn't even be hard, open the mission file, select everything that is independent and delete. Make the map just be North Takistan and South Takistan. Give checkpoints a purpose besides sniper practice.
If deleting insurgents is not an option, then make it so that terrorists(insurgents and civilian terrorists) need a reason to declare terror. Cop blew up your tire? Declare terror. Cop killed your buddy? Declare terror. Don't like Martial Law? Declare terror. Taxes too high? Declare terror. It shouldn't be acceptable to declare terror simply cos you wanna kill people (which I myself am guilty of).
So, I hope y'all take something from this and find a way to make the server less of a fuck-fest.