BeerNuts wrote: My concern is accidental friendly fire: a few times I have hit or downed fellow Blues because the dogfighting gets fast and furious and like spaghetti, it's hard to distinguish each noodle when the adrenaline gets going. And it does get going. I've also bombed my own base/ship by accident when too many Reds are on my side's a#% and I needed to lighten the load for maneuverability. I just don't want to get banned for unintentionally performing friendly fire.
I wouldn't worry too much Beer, as long as you give a "sorry" it should not be an issue. We've ALL downed teammates in the game unintentionally, from the newest noob to wig - nobody can say they haven't. A good portion of accidental shootings are attributed to lag and are nobody's fault.
I've bombed my own hangar twice myself - once trying to unload to engage a relentless camper, and once wiping my screen with a lens cloth - hangar bombings typically take a little more than a "sorry" to smooth over. I find that "OMG I hit the bomb button by mistake! Real sorry guys!" works just fine. And if you crash or get shot down while typing all that, so be it - don't wait.
The guys that freak out even though you apologize are almost never found here on the forum, and so they aren't here to put you on the blacklist anyway.
Hope this eases your mind a bit