Then please....please....read the manual and learn to IFF. Its great to see new blood in Hyperlobby and on the major servers but seriously, to avoid pissing people off learn how to Identify friend from foe.
Its extremely irritating to be friendly locked at almost point blanc range from behind. Its even more irritating to be shot at continously by a friendly who doesnt understand Buddy spike/Friendly lock/im a friendly/stop locking me/STOP LOCKING ME.
Just now on the 504 server i had one rookie telling another that the way to IFF was to see if the missile fired. If it didnt then the target was a friendy!....Another guy was asking bogeys he'd locked up if they were friend or foe (by typing messages and then asking them to flare). Seriously this sounds funny now but people get irritated online and tempers lost.
Please....its great to get more people online but before you do and have a bad experience from someone shouting abuse at you for teamkilling them, have a flick through the manual and learn to IFF.
I realise mistakes are made, even experienced players have killed buddies (myself included)....so if you do...dont send them a 'woops lol' message..just a quick apology and learn from your mistake.
Oh and one more thing....dont abuse the ecm...i dont even carry ecm pods anymore. Most people online dont use them correctly and get killed for it.
ECM ON is not part of the startup procedure....its only useful in some situations.
Ok...rant off. Have fun online.