What regular "patrol" cops would do (Army National Guard on that server, entry level like DOC etc.) Myself when I was an "Executive Senior Admin," also commanding all US/NATO forces, took to the skies with one of my Majors and broadcast some "news"
I want to share with you some Legendary clips from that timeĭuring a war with OPFOR, special forces detonate OPFOR's hangar Despite how it may seem, there was a surprising amount of in-character RP, but it was combat RP. There's a difference between unwhitelisted random cops playing versus whitelisted and trained cops who are in a faction and hierarchy, there is a lot of RP involved in that.
Finally, the Independent group were straight up terrorists, they spawned at a base and would venture either into the BLUFOR North or OPFOR South and go wild. Civs could become terrorists and kill cops, go to the Medic or PMC shop and act in those roles, or simply be a straight up civilian. I mainly was on the BLUFOR side but OPFOR had a lot going for it, the corrupt OPFOR Russian south could let drugs go by for a price or straight up execute you, while the US/NATO BLUFOR forces were more like the straight cop faction and played within the rules.
Like the place the mod takes place in, not all sides are marked out as good or bad, and tend to vary from server to server. Each side is usually limited to a certain amount of players (example, BluFor usually allows up to 16 players at once). They consist of the BluFor, OpFor, Independent, and Civilian groups. It went from just a handful of people playing in unwhitelisted BLUFOR/OPFOR slots to packed whitelisted slots all the time, many people working hard to rank up in BLUFOR/OPFOR, joining special forces, training in vehicles and coordinating attacks, airstrikes, as well as events like War, Joint Ops, and martial law. There are four main sides to the region of Takistan. I played on an unwhitelisted server but with whitelisted BLUFOR/OPFOR, I proposed the faction system for it. It is very nostalgic for me and many others, I think it shows that "Combat RP" can be fun when done properly. I played the original Arma 2 Takistan Life, no mods needed, Takistan came default with Arma 2.