Sure, there are also simulators with no friendly fire or the option to turn this off. Does that mean FF is neccessary in EC, I don't think so.
i didn't talk about military simulators only, Warframe has no ff . And you can switch it off in Rainbow Six vegas.
Warframe isn't a simulator though, it's twitch fps with little to no tactical mechanics. Weren't the queues for RSV and RSV2 dead with FF off?
Folks, this is going to be a warhammer 40k military simulation. We will have faction commanders organising and directing the battles. We will have tanks and other vehicles and a huge sandbox world to move about in and destroy your enemes. All of the equipment and organisation moves EC from game to simulation. And if this is going to capture people attemtions for more than a quick ork f2p download its going to have to have some depth of gameplay. A lack of a ff mechanic would mean that this thing would immediately devolve into who can aim the most biggest spammiest explosive weapons. You have to understand that with ff you can have all of these different systems working together because there are checks and ballances. Without ff this GAME will be a short lived mess.
I don't know about the queues but i found something interesting about your lovely PS2 and how everybody loves ff option there, have a nice reading https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2...-servers-without-friendly-fire-enabled.79856/
tl;dr Carebear got killed once and makes a thread about it because he couldn't contain his mad. I don't exactly see what i'm meant to enjoy reading here.