I've had a five man squad and it was marked as 5 people, the main thing is most likely OB's because this would cause more power to 1 person

my squad has been talking about this almost evry night and we are damanding 6 people, its a bummer when we get 1-2 others asking for an invite but we are full.

the problem is not with the squad size but in the grouping of squad... squad of 4 is ok... IF you can group squad together

The dev blog says:-


This (presumably) means you can have multiple squads accept the same contract to join the same battle, and as you'll already have chosen a side (one of the militias) those squads should be on the same side.

Up until now on SiSi CCP have been forcing us into the battles they want us in, because the #1 priority was for them to get data about the testing. With the move to TQ, and then the open beta, the priority changes to the players (us) having fun.

Not currently but what I think he was saying is that we will be able to in the future.

Also, afaik, we are just thrown into random ambush/skirmish matches. In the future, we will be able to see a list of 'contracts' from NPC corporations and choose to fight for one of them...thus if we are communicating with another squad, we can simultaneously accept the same contract and play together.

Leave the 4 man squad, but able to Q in larger numbers.

I used to think that we needed bigger squads but after talking about it with a few corp mates, It occurred to me that this would be bad for the game because a squad of 8 PFBHz or 8 Impp's or another good corp would turn the game to an instant redline. thus making new players rage quit and the game to die.

For random battles having one four-man squad on the opposite team working together often means you've lost. Your random people will need to be particularly good to outmatch the power of an organized group like that.

Having even larger squads will mean that random battles will often be even more stacked. You will have little chance of being able to beat an enemy team with 6 of its members working closely together if your team is mainly comprised of random jackoffs.

In short, organized play is cool and playing with your corp/friends is a good thing, but people need to be able to log on, hit Random Battle, and be reasonably certain they aren't going to get farmed in game after game by organized people working together as part of a corp squad. If squads get bigger, the odds of being able to get a decent game goes down, and the people playing Dust casually will get discouraged and go play something else.