I'm going to start by saying it's 2013 and 4 man parties are a joke. They have never worked in Battlefield and have always been a complaint about the series. When i'm looking to play a game, I'm trying to play with more than 3 friends. Call of Duty handles pub matches perfectly. If you don't have friends you're supposed to go play free for all, or mercenary. There's absolutely no reason as to why groups or clans should be forced to play with the special players that really don't know how to play, or have the desire or wherewithal to play as a team and win a match. Nobody should have to camp clutch and carry in pub matches.

CCP needs to simply make a mercenary playlist that creates randomized teams if people don't have friends to play with. BTW to the players that are going to say this will split the player base. "F-U" This game will never be competitive as long as randoms are playing in the same pub matches and organized groups of players.

Some great idea guys. But let's not limit our selves.

I think we shouldn't be limit to just our corp to Q-Sync. We should be allowed to Q-Sync with alliance, allies, or any other corp for that matter. There can be contracts for corps who are not Allies/alliance/friends so they can pay a certain amount of ISK to a corp to Q-Sync. The corp that is paying could do it for:

Seeing what it takes to becomes better.
Helps pad there leader board stats.
Try's to lost the game purposely to damage the other corps stats

Q-Syncing is not just for pub stomping. So much more can come from it.

Also we are going to get a ton of new gamers when open beta arrives. I for one can say a lot of players would want to play with there friends, even if they get pubstomp. You know why? Because they enjoy there friends company.

Squad of 4 sucks. Everybody knows this

There could be a skill to level up that increases squad count. With it, it could make the defend order radius effect larger with each level.

There could be a skill to Q-Sync that increases the number of squad you can Q-Sync with. Maybe also the skill at first only allows corp mates, then you will have to level it up if anybody wants to Q-Sync with Alliance and so forth.

Just some ideas I just thought of. CCP can do so much.

But I say the easiest one to implements is to make matchmaking the same but limit high end rewards. Make them even harder to get now. Like a Super Epic rare loot drop. Then have a mercenary gametype that has Q-Sync where the rewards are higher and the loot is better and a little easier to come upon on.

Dust needs risk and reward. Right now we hardly have any.

Matchmaking right now is highsec. Put in mercenary matches with Q-Sync and that can become Low-Sec.
In sense making the game more risk vs reward. Do you risk facing a team of SI,SyN,STB,PFBH,IMPS and so on to get more ISK and better loot? It also will simulate bigger and non official corp battles that will help the community get better.

Or do you keep it safe and only do Matchmaking with your squad?

Ok here is my idea for the loot. In the Merc battles, only the winning side gets loot, but it's better loot, maybe even AUR loot.