The issue is the ease at which people acquire orbital strikes. The solution isn't to let people kill their own team via orbital strikes, it's to make it so that situations like that don't happen very often. Enemy guys standing safely amidst a friendly strike is a lesser evil than letting people annihilate friendly infantry and vehicles with orbital strikes for laughs.

Although I guess an alternative would be to prevent orbital strikes from being called in too near to friendlies in a highsec game. Still make it so that there's no friendly fire, but also make it so that the strikes can't be called down if they'd otherwise be in danger of harming allies. That's a decent compromise, isn't it?

Never stated it was a solution to the exploit.

But I really think it should damage or kill friendlies

I never said you did. I said that the problem with it is that you get a dozen strikes per game, so situations like this happen relatively often. If orbital strikes were more rare, it'd be much less common that you'd encounter this issue.

As for the issue with it killing friendlies, surely you realize that letting orbital strikes kill friendlies would simply result in people targeting their own team with orbital strikes, just to grief them for fun? You'd be addressing one issue by creating an entirely new one. It's not a good solution.

Turning FF on for orbital strikes and giving negative WP for team kills when using them will help with the multiple orbital strikes problem.

I feel even in High sec this needs to happen.

Red dots defending an objective your team is hitting and their squad leaders call in a strike right now their own team without fear of team killing.

The strikes need to kill everyone in the area. No matter which side they are on.

That all for this post.