I want FF on so i can go shoot all the blue dots in the face that hide in the back of the red zone thinking there helping and all i hear is there sniper rifle firing but see no kill's on the feed from them

FF would be okay with the appropriate penalties for any damage inflicted to friendlies. World of Tanks has an excellent system to emulate for this, as like in Dust, when you die in WoT it costs you credits. The bottom line is that retards like the above, who dream of TK'ing people because they think they are the ones who decide how other players play the game, need to be appropriately punished for their stupidity. Fines taken from their wallet and given to the people they kill, designation as a team killer and made an open target for anyone on any team to kill and get credit for, and finally, temporary and eventually permanent banning from the game.

Friendly fire is nice because it adds a bit more depth to the tactics to be employed. Friendly fire is bad when people use it to maliciously kill their team mates. So to achieve the former without the latter, sufficient punishment needs to go along with egregious TK'ing. If that's done, I think FF would be a valuable addition to the game. If it isn't, then morons like the above will ruin Dust as teams end up more concerned with killing each other than with killing the enemy team.

Banning TK would not be within the ideology of the New Eden universe. Backstabbing, betrayal, and subterfuge are integral parts of the way things run in the Eve/Dust universe. So TK someone and get no kill/WP/SP/ISK credit fine. But penalties, if any, should be based on sec status of the area combat occurs in and banning should never be considered.

yeah friendly fire in pub games is going to be terrible, I had a guy running LAVs into my tank yesterday because i'd killed his tank in the previous round, with FF on he'd have been hitting me with a forge gun.

lol yaaa i can see this happening
butthurtery at its finest

the thing with TKing to go off what 5x said i disagree with banning from the game. People should instead be flagged as u said for both sides to shoot....sort of like a bounty placed on the aggressors head by concord for TKing. That way hes showing up red for both sides and it turns into everyone has fair shot at him which will make the aggressors time in said match highly frustrating

A good counter sniper is hard to find, dadrobbit where are you?

As long you are not allowed to use swarms and forge against your own vehicle. Only against infantry. Im not gonna take a 2mil + tank on the battlefield to get shot at by jealous blue dots lol

In reading peoples thoughts about friendly fire I had a though about how it could be implemented differently than it is now and not feel so artificial:

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=47797&find=unread

Basically add safeties to weapons that prevent the friendly fire from happening. I have no idea if this kind of thing is technically feasible, and this would only be for high sec.

See now, that's what I just said. Isn't that a better option? I would much prefer such a system to what we have now.

Totally read your post after putting up that thread. I agree that it would be a MUCH better option. If you are going to have friendly fire at least make it somewhat realistic.

You still end up with the issue of making this concept work with indirect and explosive weapons like mass drivers though.