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There will be an open world sandbox mode with both PVP and PVE, but as you should have seen in the Fanfest gameplay demo there is still gamemodes; they showed Domination mode (I even linked a picture, here it is again).

Even if somehow all battles are completely open world, there has to be mechanisms of that determine who wins; without rules and mechanisms, how do you know who wins a battle? Such rules and mechanisms constitute a game mode. Without such rules, everyone is just running around shooting each other with no goal or end, no victory, no defeat.

So yeah, there are game modes.

We are mercenaries. We are hired by people to fight on their behalf and take land in their behalf; there has to be rules and mechanisms to decide when the job is done so we can get paid, or who wins the battle, those rule constitute a game mode.

Game modes and open world are not mutually exclusive; Planetside 2 for example has a specific mechanism of how one side takes a piece of territory within that open world, i cold those rules and mechanisms as constituting a game mode. You can have different rules which constitute a game mode for different areas within a single open world, so an open world game can still have multiple game modes.

Our definitions of game mode aside. I said before, and I will say it again, planetary conquest and faction warfare can be completely open world, but I don't see the point in every single thing being open world.

Also I hate the idea of time limits, battles should end when one side logically can no longer fight on. Example; one side runs out of clones, and they can no longer spawn.

The "battles won they are decidedly won" philosophy can apply for faction warfare and planetary conquest, but I don't see why it would have to apply to every single thing.

I was talking about the timers to end the battle, NOT the "when you can attack" timers. In an open world mode, battle should end when one team can no longer spawn, or they retreat because they ran out of resources, or retreat because they just know its hopeless. Timers to decide when the battle ends defeats the whole point of an open world mode.

I could back the existence of "game modes" if they were restricted to Arena style battles on Arena style maps.

Add betting and spectator mode and I'd even +1 the idea.

Do you people want or expect the vast majority of the battles to be exactly?

That's not exactly an answer. I get the feeling that you guys want the vast majority of the battles to just be open world endless battles, which doesn't really make outside of persistent sandbox modes like planetary conquest and faction warfare.

Ignore everyone else.

The only game mode in Legion that is going to be as much of a sandbox as all of these dreamers want will be PC. The MAJORITY of players will not be playing PC, they will instead be either fighting drones, or participating in FW.

Drone matches WILL have different types of game modes absolutely. For example, imagine something like players boarding ships to go hunt drones on a certain area of the planet. You would be hired by a NPC, and they would pay you based on the work done. That area will need to cleared out and the drones might only be located inside of a structure or base (or possibly multiple small bases). After all of the drones are destroyed, you get rewards and are returned back to the hangar to be hired on for another mission.

But we can mix it up and have objectives that spawn drones...so you have to hack the objective to turn off the spawning mechanism. Maybe you have a limited amount of clones and the drones can turn the spawners back on. Maybe there will be defences/barriers you have to destroy as you breach the walls of a structure or city.
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And then with FW, you'll essentially be hired on as a merc to fight for one side or the other. Say Gallente places an attack on Caldari and they need X amount of mercs before they can attack. Caldari finds out they are being attacked and needs to hire mercs to defend. Bam, you have a battle.

Here comes the sandbox part. As Caldari, you already have a base captured and you spawn in waiting for the Gallente to show up. As Gallente, you're being dropped in by the Mobile MCC outside of the base, trying to push into the city to take control. Each side has only spent a certain amount of resources, so once one side runs out, the other is victorious.

Either way, these battles can have objectives, or breach mechanics, or just be about who can clone the other team out. These types of game modes should be interesting, and I agree that there should just be more than your standard TDM.

You could go crazy with these ideas, like maybe Gallente spies placed a bomb inside the caldari base and you have to figure out where it's located before time runs out. Maybe there's a fight going on in space and you have to charge a cannon for 10 minutes while another team tries to stop you.

Just because it's a sandbox, doesn't mean we can't have interesting reasons for why we're fighting. Because if we didn't, Legion would become Planetside 2...and trust me, PS2 doesn't make you feel like you're fighting for anything.

I hate it when people claim to represent the majority of the community, especially when in this particular case only a handful of people are weighing in.

Well that's just because I am always right. Its just a simple matter of fact, the sooner you can accept it, the sooner you can find peace.