just a quick suggestion of being able to make custom matches with the abuility to not only select and choose your own rules at the start but also invite who you want to invite to the match allowing you to fight directly against your friends without having random strangers in your game also would maybe allow some tournements and possably create unique PvE games,
also it would be wise to note that there would be no cost to repairing and rearming ships as well as no reward for taking part in custom matches.
this idea mainly came from me and a group of my friends wanting to have a 4v4 match up against each other and currantly there is no way to facilitate that.