[TheDopp]

I just never saw the point of friendlies personally, it's just a waste of a slot for someone who could actually play. Then, people who want to play wind up spectating while someone who just sits there stays in the round.

+1
Removing them would solve that, the other suggestion of increasing the damage penalty would not help as the "friendly heavys" don't shoot anyhow and would encourage the normal heavys to shoot even less.

It would solve Spray and pray hoovies. The original complaint. You can't remove people wanting to be "friendly" by taking away heavy, just the class, without making a "you must be super serious when you play here" as a rule.

Also, because I just saw it happen in the server. Friendlies can be almost equally as detrimental as spray and prays because often times they go stand next to a prop and start spamming "The scout is a spy" which is essentially ruining that props spot. Some people don't care, some do.

Not sure how that is detrimental per-se. They could have just killed you.