The problem of squad size is the amount of people in a game.
In corp battles it's 8vs8, and in most other games I'm pretty sure it's 16vs16. The amount of people in a squad needs to divide evenly to the amount of people in the game, so the only other number that fits is 8, which is a little too large to effectively manage.

When team sizes go up we will probably get a leadership skill group. It may or may not require a skill.

EvE had a skill that allowed 2 players per squad per level, one that allowed 1 squad in wing per level, and one for one wing in fleet per level. With total of 256 players in fleet.

The tree structure allows command to scale to the larger size, we will probably have something like this once play caps are higher and crusader and command suits have been added.

It doesn't have to be evenly divisible. Three player hav teams, lone snipers, lone dropship pilots, 2 man heavy logi pairs, random unsquaded players ect... All could fill in extra team slots remaining from infantry squads. This would work better if we could set both team and squad to listen, and set speaking to squad and push to talk to team(or the reverse).

We need custom squads.
We aren't expected to play with the same cookie-cutter classes in Battlefield, so why the hell are we stuck with the same cookie-cutter squad size? It makes no sense to me.

It could be that the VOIP channel size on PS3 is limiting factor there. I am surprised that they managed 32 players as BF is limited to 24 max .
So we may not see custom or 6 ppl squads at all.

I think squads of four are fine, but let us form teams that can join a battle together. Solves the issue of corps not being able to ROFL stomp in games outside of corp battles.

Does no one on these forums understand the military role of a squad?
I keep hearing and seeing requests for larger squads and I just don't get it. You're breaking a very fundamental tactical rule.

A squad is basically the smallest military unit that can roam alone in battle. Larger squads just don't make sense.
What you are all really asking for is a way to deploy together with more than 4 people. That doesn't mean having more than 4 in a squad, that just means deploying as more than 4.
If I translate this to a more technical aspect I'd say it's a way to tie 2-3 squads together for deployment purposes. Maybe even have a team commander who also deploys (though a team commander should technically be the commander of one of those squads).

So please people, don't ask for tactic breaking mechanics. Say what you mean instead of clinging to invalid game mechanics.

Squad count shouldnt be raised until player cap is imo.

16 vs 16 => 4
24 vs 24 => 6
32 vs 32 => 8 (best option imo. hope we get there fast)

also,



Bad idea imo. The day they allow team to full deploy in high-sec contracts, it will ruin the game for a lot of people

I disagree until they beef up the over-all player count in game. It's hard enough to be a solo player grinding SP/ISK against a good sqaud of 4, 6 would just make games more one sided then they are since most people don't use squads when joining.

4 is the size of a RL traditional military firesquad. What the game needs is a way for multiple squads to efficiently coordinate.