Not sure if this has been brought up before (didn't have much luck with search results), but right now all we have in terms of LD matchmaking are random team, and GvG. Many players, including myself and my guildmates, have made use of the GvG aspect to do 'friends-only' LD, or to just control who they want to versus, but it is a tedious process involving moving people across two guilds and then having to reinvite them back into the guild and then re-promoting them once the LD matche(s) are done. So, as per the topic, I'd like to suggest to OOO to include an option in the LD tab for invite-only matchmaking in order to make this process easier for us to get a LD match against friends only or against specific people. Other details and options that can/has to be included are as follows:
1) Only the lobby leader can send out invites. Players invited by the leader can then request to have their friends invited.
2) The lobby leader can toggle between having the players randomly put into teams, or having fixed teams.
3) I'm not sure if this would be a good inclusion, but I'll just mention it here: The lobby leader is able to choose which map to play (available maps depend on number of players present; I don't think a 4v4 match would be nice in a 5cap-point map), or he can just set it as random.
4) All players must click a 'Ready' button before the lobby leader can start a match.
5) At the end of every match, instead of having everyone simply click to play again, everyone has to return to the lobby (which can be accessed via the menu that shows damage, captures, defends, etc. so they don't need to go through another loading screen) where the lobby leader can make adjustments to the aforementioned options before continueing. (All players still have to click to ready, so the ready button kinda replaces the play again button from before.)
I did not include options to have the invite-only lobby open/viewable to public since it would defeat the purpose of having it as, well, invite-only, and moreso rendering the currently available random team option obselete since people will just see what lobbies are currently open and hop into the one that they feel would benefit the most to them. I'd like to hear everyone's opinions and hope that OOO will incorporate this feature soon if it gets positive feedback.
Don't know what else to say...
But I'm luvin the idea :D