I would like to see the option to make password protected matches with more customizability, however, without experience gain or the alteration of statistics. I believe that all matches which grant experience should have an aspect of randomness, just to be fair and place emphasis on the main game mode (squads). Such rooms would serve useful for fooling around, cinematography (letting players advertise the game in new creative ways), experimenting, 1 vs 1s, tournaments, etc. As for the “customizability” I mentioned earlier, I would like options such as changing bot count from 0-100, and raising the max limit for vehicles. Perhaps this customization could be added as an optional choice to public matches as well, at the cost of no experience gain and no effect on stats. These customizable matches would appear in a different section of the lobby screen or explicitly warn joining player that they will not gain experience.
I agree.
I have friends who are filthy casuals, and are only able to fight vs bots. I only play custom matchs to hang out with them, during wich we do funny things such as bus races in Tunisia or motorboat races in Normandy (yes we have strange fun).
It’s a bit unpleasant when a random try hard enter the match and cannot read the room, trying to win at all cost while we just want to mess around.
We’d be 100% if xp gains were disabled entirely for custom matchs, provided we are able to continue having fun.
this is why that change was so terrible. Imagine how many players are like that out there but aren’t playing because they don’t earn XP. That’s money that DF is losing out on.
To be fair, ppl who only play vs bots don’t really need xp or lvls, they’re casual ppl and simply don’t care at all about progression anyway… You should see my casual pals and you’d understand: they are nuts. It’s a good thing they don’t play regular matchs as they’d make their team lose by doing stupid things.
But.
They have fun. And THAT’S the most important factor there is. It’s why it’d be nice having private gaming sessions, to continue having retarded fun without causing troubles to others 
If we get private rooms then why not go the extra mile and have offline support (without EXP gain, if that has to be the caveat)? There would be no latency to worry about at all and you could just choose a side and a map you like and drop into it instantly.