One way to get around the spliting of clanmates, is creating clan specific rooms, that should allow intraclan games....doesn't solve the problem though of inter-clan games....that takes a bit of creativity

I heard at one time that they were planning an auto balancer, don't know if this is true or not. The downside of this is that it would probably split clanmates up and that defeats the purpose of being in a clan...

Auto balancer would be one way of addressing the problem. Perhaps they could come up with a way to allow the host to move ships after closing the room.

BO's level doesn't really matter, it should be based on gunner levels and ship.

Good idea, it sounds like something I suggested last night, but instantly was flamed for because I created a new topic for for some intelligent conversation, glad to see someone else picked up on it :) I think an auto-balance for ALL Things navyfield would prevent not only AB games, but stacked games, etc.... The Auto-Balancing program I have in mind, would take into account your gunners and BO's level, and your ship class, and automatically assign you to a team, you can chose once you are in, but only if the auto-balancer feels that it won't through off the game, I have seen something similiar in other games

This could work if it would balance based on ranks rather than ships or something. I'm assuming that is what you mean.