Yup, with so many AOE weapons, and how CCWs will probably have an arc they damage, if there is FF it should be a reduced damage and heavy penalties to trolling. We also don't want to overly punish new players for tossing a grenade just as another player jumps down on the same target with a jetpack from out of screen. In halo, FF seems to make it more full of angry players than induce realism.
We could always go to the penalty of deflection FF. That way people who attack teammates receive the damage instead of killing their teammates. The penalty for suicide such as longer respawns, loss of experience, and other penalties should enforce everyone to be more careful. I know this works in smaller scale shooters such as Halo and CoD so it should work as well in a larger environment. The other option is friendly fire mitigation where every person hit shares the damage equally, reducing the chance of anyone dying to an accidental hit but also penalizing the shooter in addition to keeping the realism of the friendly taking damage.
Really any reduction or mitigation of FF, including immunity, is just as exploitable (or more so) as FF itself. The exploits just take different forms. For example blocking doors with indestructible units, or walking in front of somebody knowing that if they shoot you they'll take the damage and you won't. Sometimes you've just got to man up and take damage. What ever happened to "And they shall know no fear"?
I have nothing to fear because I really don't care who I kill. Any person stupid enough to get in front of the Hammer of the Emperor is either ignorant of the Emperors Divine Wrath or an enemy of the Imperium.
I'm used to playing with friendly fire (long time Planetside 1 and 2 player) and I would want to see it include here, probably with similar mechanics.
That is all nice but you cannot expect using 'similar mechanics' in a different environment EC is definitely going to be hence the discussion, check several dozen of pages back.
