Well actually each squad member gains more WP already if they follow the squad orders. Killing an enemy close to a set squad order yields 60 WP instead of the normal 50 or hacking a squad order objective yields 120 WP instead of the standard 100. So on that perspective it's already in place, it's just the incompetent squad leaders that don't know how to set squad directives properly and thus fail to utilize this gain for their squad.

When I play PUB games solo I usually join up on a squad. However in many occasions I also get kicked out from a squad for one or the other reason. Perhaps because I don't bother to use my mic on random games or then the guys just want to stick with themselves.

LOL! You fellas are fun sometimes, but you DO make some of these subjects so complex, that I'm glad you're not doing my income taxes for me!

I read up so much on the way players operate in EVE Online (and deal with so much suspicion/player trickery),... that when I was a Blueberry in Dust I guess the most inviting thing I would've wanted from a prospective squad was... not to call me a "blueberry" (or noob, or newbie). "Newberry" was the term that EVE Online coined as intending to its pitfalls ive respect to new players who were entering what new and vet players alike saluted as a TOUGH game for all of us. The name kinda sounded "sociable", not like upper-classman & freshman routine.

We PS3 players have been doing that upper-classman routine alot to new Dust players (yep,.. I realized I'm guilty of it too, and I should really stop myself). The way to incentive Newberrys is really to be sociable and communicative with them very early in the game. Let em know they're not being hooked into corp or commitment right away---"Hey we just want you to GROUP up with us for the duration of the match--you'll last longer and be better protected by us while you help us win the important targets!"
...I guess we could have been using our mics in the warbarge to get that point across to the new players, but... we screwed up a good opportunity I guess.
The one thing I didn't understand earlier is that SOCIAL work is as powerful a tactic in Dust as the proto suits everybody's scrambling to get in the beginning. I'd love to see if 1.5's new tutorials are able to make that clear to new players.

Let's face it, cuz we've each seen it happen: if you round up loose strangers into an simple herd, you can trample most proto vets and take any map in this game you want.

This is a GOOD thread, Rastael! Really valuable. Try to keep it going.

You make some good points but there is one thing that prevents this from happening from the outset, we all join a match in our respective chosen chat channels so with minimal time on the warbarge before a match switching chat channels isn't always going to be a priority. I would suggest to CCP that all comms channels default to "Team Chat" when joining the warbarge, this would make lines of communication open from the outset. If you don't want to be in teamchat you then need to select away. Not without It's own pitfalls but would at least give half a chance of getting some sort of cohesion.

^ and it makes the trolling problem in game much worse at the same time.