Your sudden death idea might be a way to implement one squad missions like recon, sabotage, etc. on an enemy's district. But that's for another thread as we are a little off-topic. Any more thoughts?

In that case, it would be interesting to see a game mechanic that allows a defending corporation to pre-place three vehicles within a district garage during a period within their reinforcement timer (say anytime up until one hour of an active attack deploy). Spies and saboteurs would fight through a single opportunity sudden death drone mode to reach the opposing side's garage to either destroy, hack (e.g. unable to reclaim to inventory in battle thus hindering the team's vehicle que limit, reversal of some vehicle controls or faster heat buildup during PC matches), or reclaiming the vehicles for use in their own armada (with a possibility to sell on the player market when that becomes a reality).

What would incentivize defenders to place their vehicles on the line besides a faster deploy? Well, by placing vehicles within a garage toward the beginning of the reinforcement timer the corporation member is given a higher modifier bonus toward a percentage of possibility of the garage's automated systems being able to produce a copy of each vehicle in the garage. These copies are deposited back into the asset inventory of original vehicle owner. These copies retain all properties of the original fitting and cost (both isk or aur items apply). This systems presents large reward and risk. Defending players and corporations who place very high value tanks and turret fittings into the garage early within their reinforcement timer stand to profit both monetarily and tactically, albeit at the risk of either losing an expensive load-out to the enemy, or being forced to run or sideline a hacked vehicle which counts against the team's vehicle deploy limit.

Your second paragraph has some good ideas. The first paragraph would be more suited to a game mode I thought up some time ago here. Drones would most likely not be needed.

It certainly seems like you could classify purchasable drones as an automated defense. However maybe another form of turrets could be produced. Turrets would already have a target acquisition function as we have seen in the past month of gameplay. Movement would then be the deciding factor. Possibly micro turrets could be placed on a rail-line system. Sneaking around the rails would require careful observation of a randomly generated rail movement patterns where breaks in the turrets line of sight (as visualized by a spotlight) are momentarily visible. Yet, stepping into a light bubble of the turret would set off the turret at the facilities' alarms.

Capture the Flag type match? I like it. +1

I guess it could be thought of as that. But an actual capture-the-flag game mode would be better suited for gladiator arenas when CCP considers adding them.

I meant: You go to the enemy base, get an item (in this case, vehicles) and return it to your base. Be a good way to get kills.

+1. I would really like it if the winning team would get a few of those vehicles that are in that specific game as a salvage.

I could roll with thid, it'd bring a whole new meaning to eaty Dust! lol. It'd also be nice say, "Yeah, I stole that LAV from Ancient Exiles or Team Players. Plus I love fast and furious, and when Corps can personalize gear, I feel this should be implemented.

Dust needs game modes, badly. this is a good one.

I like it.

We are in desperate need of new game modes that are exciting and different.