Party size improvement suggestion

I would like to start by saying this game has given me the most fun in years. Kudos to everyone that worked hard to make this masterpiece.

I would like to suggest increasing the party size, 7 of my friends and I were playing the beta, and not having the option to queue up together was really unfortunate. I think the squad size of 4 is perfect. But dividing the party into multiple squads should be an option. After all Battlefield is a team oriented game, multiple squads working together is in the spirit of the game.

In addition I would like to be able to be able to color code squads on my team so when a party larger than 4 players join we could still know where they are on the map to coordinate together. it would be lovely if we could color code any squad on our team, it would probably help people coordinate attacks or defences more efficiently.

I know that this system could be exploited by some hardcore groups that can turn servers into xp farms, but some people are genuinely just trying to play with their friends to have some fun together and I think it's doable. There could be a skill based matchmaking implemented where instead of having a hidden MMR, it would instead base itself on kills, assists, revives, captures and exclude deaths (as it can be exploited by redeploying just to lower ur apparent skill level). This could be either implemented for all queues or just for queues of more than 4 players. I think it could be a fair solution to the hardcore players grouping up together.