I do
And when I do I shoot my friends down. That creates an issue you seldom had. Your speaking on things way above your pay grade.
Nobody is obligated to do what your suggesting but they are penalized if they don't. You don't offer a realistic solution that preserves the game where its at today. It actually breaks up da squads and groups who play together often. Good luck with all that.
You do? So why are you crying about ENY?
Don't be ridiculous, I've had to shoot friends down, people from; TheFew, TopGun, LCA, KN, Freebirds, C-Hawks, TheGFC, and a whole host of unaligned squadron-less friends.
They are penalised with good reason, gangbanging single cons with 10 people is the one of the fastest ways to cause someone to log off with crappy gameplay. The realistic solution is to equalise the numbers by switching sides and giving people a better chance of good gameplay via even odds.
Preserving the game as it is today as a gangfest of ENY cry babies that are too daft to switch sides and engage in friendly competition isn't going to help the game survive.
Rather than the mundane repetitive; horde base land repeat (that is the leading cause of AcesHigh burnout), start encouraging switching sides, engage each other in combat. Give yourselves some bloody gameplay.
And if they cannot take being shot down and it breaks up a squad, the bond of friendship was never strong anyway.