Victory

[Edfishy]

Most of the reviews I had read for PlanetSide complained about the lack of any real victory or goal. Although SOE is talking about removing/redesigning sanctuaries, I would highly suggest the ability to take an empire's sanctuary.

BALANCE
Sanctuaries would obviously have mechanisms (shields, multiple simultaneous hacks required, limited window of opportunity, etc) to prevent spam hacks and to ensure a sanc cap would take a great deal of effort to pull off.

CAPTURED
If the sanctuary is taken, each member of the losing empire has a choice to EDIT fight alongside their choice of the remaining two empires. This choice would last as long as the window of opportunity lasts before a pre-determined "resistance" rises and reclaims the old sanctuary back for the original empire.

Your character and vehicles would get a themed texture to be similar to your newfound ally, for example a mostly red with some blue paint job if you're the NC working with the TR, and you would spawn at their sanctuary with access to each other's tech.

EDIT This would be designed to be difficult enough to require several months to accomplish a sanctuary cap, requiring a full server, etc.

CEASE FIRE
EDIT Taking a single sanctuary occurs once every few months. Taking the final could take years, and is intended as an "unobtainable goal". In the unlikely event the third sanctuary is taken, the lucky players are treated to merits, exp boosts, and some sort of a "Congratulations" victory screen (to save and show off to others), and then either:

A) The server resets to three empires again. (simplest solution)

or...

THE UNDERGROUND
B) a group of players spawn as "the rising underground" for their original faction in various spawn points in their original sanctuaries (or perhaps it rotates/randomizes). Every kill made by the Underground gives bonus experience returns an old comrade to your side (You'd go from a TR mix to a pure VN for example). The sanctuaries would no longer have the defensive mechanisms, so they'd fall in a hurry. This time would mostly be a "celebration time" (cha-cha lines all around) while things quickly returned to normal.

YOUR THOUGHTS?
Should there be even a chance of some sort of victory? Or should sanctuaries be forever locked off?