Well I don't know about all this 9% chance stuff & hurting established squadrons thing, but Lafayette Escadrille is only 1 month & 4 days old and growing slowly & steadily & filled with awesome pilots.. so that pick an established squadron stuff I disagree with, especially since that from the time I fell in love with this game I wanted to bring a piece of history in the form of my squadron to this game.
Does that mean we can't fail? Of course it doesn't.. & even though some of you think it's all about numbers (which I disagree with) it won't fail because I am doing something silly like letting any pilot looking for a squadron into the Escadrille so that I have a lot of pilots.. I would rather have any 6 of the pilots I currently have now than 106 of the many pilots that come every day on World Chat looking for a squadron!
And if someone wants to make their own squadron?? Good for them! Diversity is the spice of life! It's a lot more hard work though than just picking a name and spending $100,000 in coins... when starting out a squadron that you want to become a success story you can just kiss a large part of your flying time goodbye!