Please stop trolling at the feedback tracker, AD2001.

SaMatra, this is a great idea.

I'm not a fan of free for all scenarios, but I'll vote up, for the sake of fluid BLUFOR/OPFOR assignment for various factions. It would permit some interesting scenarios, where for example US (normally BLUFOR) together with Russia (normally OPFOR) launch a joint op, against some hated by everyone badguys.

There was a military sim or strategy game before, where the scenario editor gave you just two boxes, Blue and Red, and a list of available factions. It was up to a scenario designer, to put factions into the boxes, thus defining alliances and hostilities between them.

Arma could use more such boxes, for example:

• BLUFOR and OPFOR, hostile to each other by default;
• Independent, with a current setting "friendly to...";
• always hostile box, factions put here are hostile to everyone else,
• always friendly/neutral box, for civilians or possible story-related factions.

Thanks for input, armapirx. These things can be manipulated with setFriend scripting command (west setFriend [east, 1]; east setFriend [west, 1]; will make BLUFOR and OPFOR friends). The problem is that there is no way to let players be hostile to each other AND be able to get into same vehicle by the design, I think that such possibility should be added.

What if a scenario designer wants to have a BLUFOR and OPFOR factions working together against another OPFOR faction?

Throwing all factions into "always hostile" box would produce the behaviour you want. Everyone is hostile to everyone (because of hostile status) and can use whatever equipment found on the map (because of being on the same "side").

Necroing.

I agree side relations are way too limited. Disabling rating doesnt help in all cases. For complex scenarios it would be helpful to have either more sides (not likely after so many years) or the ability to setFriend on units/group level instead of a whole side.