A really simple aid to realism would be to turn on friendly collisions and the ability to shoot friendlies. You'd have to be more careful in furballs and especially when five of you are ganging up on that lone con that's desperately trying to avoid a certain death. You'd have to be careful landing and taking off - and you'd be cursing the friendly wirble sitting in the middle of the runway. The key thing is that this wouldn't take any HTC time to accomplish. Switch 'em on HiTech!
IMHO, for the MA, this is a Very Bad Idea. All it would take is one nasty griefer to spoil the fun for a whole lot of folks.
FSO, however, normally is run with the "kill-shooter" turned off. This encourages careful selection of targets, yet even though everyone knows it is there, this still causes one or two friendly fire deaths almost every frame. I don't know if the friendly collision thing has ever been tried in FSO. The mass take-off at the beginning of a frame would be a disaster, so I suspect this has not been tried, for good reason.
