I came up with a great idea for paintgrens while I was driving home. Picasso was having trouble with the latest release, so I sent him the most current version. In that, the paint grenades can always kill the throwers (but if grenadeffire is 0, they can't kill teammates). I figured this would be the best of both worlds: people wouldn't be able to use cheap throw-at-feet/point-blank tactics (the main complaint about impact grenades), but they also would not be able to intentionally kill teammates. Apparently some people complained to him, though. I wish more people would post complaints on the forum, though. I can't really take "he said she said" complaints that seriously, and I think most of the time, people on the server just whine for the sake of whining and use any kind of change as an excuse for their inability to play well.
Anyway, I'm ranting. On to the idea: Let the players decide. Picasso was saying he wanted people to be able to choose. Since the anti-change whiners prefer the old non-impact grenades, those could be non-self killing (when ffire is disabled). If people tosser impact grenades, though, they run the risk of eliminating themselves.
On another note, as I mentioned in another thread, I implemented the match command finally. I really should have done that as soon as I got the EV1 servers to hopefully standardize the match settings by now... oh well. Kind of funny that people still match using the old public mode settings.