Some of you may know me as somewhat who enjoys playing independent quite a lot, others may remember me from various staff positions on RISE gaming. I'm writing this thread to make a few suggestions which I feel would make things better for everyone after hearing out what people have been complaining about when chatting to them. 1. Expand the list of war vehicles for BLUFOR. (Expansion of Rule 3.4 §5)  - Currently, the inventory of vehicles which BLUFOR can get at any time still creates a feeling that they were too overpowered. Whilst the current list is good, it does not include vehicles which the vast majority of other servers considered war vehicles for a good reason, and this is that they create an unfair style of play and are listed below. The main issue with these vehicles is as BLUFOR's job largely consists, both in an RP sense and in a literal sense, in dealing with civilians in a war-torn country and thus taking on a Military Police role, it is an unnecessary amount of force projection to be driving around in a Stryker M2 whilst pulling people over. This also creates an unnecessary amount of kills and drives people away from playing on civ; I've seen countless examples where BLUFOR in such vehicles have opened fire on civilians and killed them needlessly as through the thermal sights, they look just like indeps. (I know we have support rooms, but why not stop it from happening in the first place?). It's also simply unfair; it's unfair to anyone playing civ or playing indep if as BLUFOR, you simply sit in an armoured box that we have to spend $600,000 to attempt to destroy. Anything that is fully armoured and has a weapon system should be considered a war vehicle and only be used during martial law/war. CROWS Avenger All armed stryker variants. 2. Expand the inventory of the Independent faction.  - The independent faction is currently vastly underpowered and unrealistic; there needs to be several changes in order to make it fun to play. Firsly, the cost of IED's must be lowered so that they can actually be used. This should be the main tool of insurgent forces as it enhances ingenuity and craftiness and currently, $310,000 for an IED is extortionate considering the fact that unless you're in a good timezone, it's extremely difficult to make money. The insurgents also need some kind of anti-material capability, this being the KSVK. This allows them to have some sort of viable ambushing capability and is something the vast majority of other servers had and people loved. However, a MUST are man-portable anti-air systems; being able to purchase the Igla 9K38 as an insurgent is something that needs to be purchased as currently, the faction has no real anti-air capability. Having an Igla Pod or ZU-23 truck is fine, but considering the fact that this appears as an enemy vehicle on radar, this meant that by the time you've gotten an appropriate distance from the safezone and set up, you've already been taken out from 5km away by the missile from a Hind. I cannot stress how important this is for indeps to have. Lastly, indeps should be able to use Mortars; this may be controversial, but mortars do actually require indeps to think if they are to be effective and requires team play and coordination, all that needs to be implemented are restrictions on what can be hit. 3. Remove the ability to bring martial-law vehicles to the border (Removal of rule 3.4 §6)  - There is an enormous amount of ways in which this can be abused. This also allows people to simply camp the border and engage targets several km away just by turning up the view distance and also means that civilians WILL be attacked too. 4. Massively harder enforcement of policing rules (Especially 3.1 §7)  - The BLUFOR faction is currently in a poor state. All day I see civilians who were legtimately doing nothing wrong being killed on sight for alleged breaches which are not permitted, such as for approaching a BLUFOR vehicle in their car or for 'running away'. Below are several genuine excuses I've seen civilians be killed for; 'He ran from me' 'He had a gun in his car' 'He is wanted' 'I saw him walking with a gun'  - All these reasons are ridiculous; BLUFOR are meant to carry stun weapons and MUST do their best to apprehend civilians at all times. They can only shoot if their life is genuinely at risk, especially since civilians can carry weapons. There must be a legitimate attempt at an arrest make, which I never see happening. Just because someone is wanted does not mean they can be killed. These are what probably piss me off the most, as it legitimately drives people away from the server and I can see a distinct drop in the number of civ players (which must always be the biggest faction) whenever this starts happening. 5. Add a rule stating that rockets/missiles may only be used on armed/armoured vehicles.  - This stops civilians who have just robbed a bank being slapped with a missile from 5k away and stops the same happening for indeps on motorbikes. It adds an element of skill for helicopter pilots to have to use the aircraft's guns and also adds a more RP 'Laws of War' element.     I might post more if I think of anything more, but for the mean time, please drop your opinions below.