Hence why they never should have existed to begin with. Perhaps in events, but it has been made very clear that barely anyone, if anyone at all, can be trusted to keep SF from becoming a closed circle clique, which it always became in one way or another.
The disparity between regular soldiers and SF was simply too steep for there to be any valuable RP generated other than general edginess and retarded subplots to execute soldiers from their own side.
but by the same token there was a knock on effect of people not interacting with special forces because of what people who were in the branch had done previously without interacting with the new members to see if there was any improvement to the quality of what they were doing and ability to cut out doing meme stuff.
it's hard to explain, but basically at some point there were genuine meme team special forces, the stigma arose, and by the time those people were long gone the stereotype remained and therefore no one wished to interact with special forces despite there being a heap of new operatives, there was a following lack of vetting applied to the applicants, and it snowballed.
ww3rp is the hive for god complex characters because you're allowing someone to play a soldier in an elite military unit, that power, alongside the ranks, gets to peoples' heads sometimes, evidently.
it's all a question of finding that balance, where special forces was declared as the most elite roleplayers within their respective faction, yet people expect them to be the best s2kers in the faction - so the expectations are differing from case to case, and at any turn they'll get shit for doing something different to expectations.
it's the same with the military police before they were added at neb modern lore.
@Powley genuinely had one of the most interesting, intelligent and well structured 'unofficial branches' (that being the military police made up of trusted people, because if you remember mps weren't added at first but it was in demand by some higher ranking people, so they took matters into their own hands). i remember it was a well structured peacekeeping like force who were distinguishable by a certain coloured brassard on their sleeve, who operated by investigation and detainment, rather than fining people or executing them on the spot like it was cw: con air.
it was well done, it was how mps should have been - yet instead, once it was adopted as an official branch and powley left for hl2rp having completed his work and running his course with ww3rp for the final time, it only went downhill in my opinion. mps having internal ranking systems that led to unnecessary power struggles (would have been better if there was the branch lead, then everyone was just 'officer' rank instead of having a ridiculous amount of ranks like 'chief x constable of the army' and 'sub petty chief officer of the army' which made the already dwindling amount of mps being spread out across a roster that couldn't fill its tally). mps getting in over their heads having been recently inducted into the branch, having some of the worst cases of god complexes i think i've ever seen, and straight out insulting sncos, pulling rank to avoid scruity of their own and negating the efforts of branches that needed real attention and assistance (medical) by stealing the prisoners, getting them healing scripts and sticking them in the cells.
special forces still could be something good if it was done right, sadly it was too little too late and the damage had already been done to them, leading to the consultation and serious consideration of their removal.
