As you can see it costs about 2400 GE to buy 500 research points for a squadron tank,
With that same amount of GE i can buy about 100,000 tech tree research points.
Thats actually such a silly argument. Some of us - like myself are in squadrons with our friends and we find it fun like that! But to be hampered because some of our friends rarely play the game anymore is disheartening. We dont want to leave the squadron now do we? I feel like it should be based entirely on the effort you put in, with maybe the current system being transfered to a new set of squadron vehicles that the leader chooses. Either that or something else but definitely base the current system around your input alone