Me? I'd take a few pages from EVE's book, because the one thing that guy up there is right about is they do the sandbox thing much better.
I would want a small civilised world - the current world will do for this - controlled by the NPC nations & factions, where most of the story action takes place. I then want this civilised world surrounded by hundreds of square kilometers of no-mans land that is totally shaped by the players. They'd be able to built their own outposts & cities etc there.
Though unlike EVE I want two game-mechanically separate no-mans-lands. One should be open PvP, so it's where the PvP megaguilds can fight over who gets to lord over it, including destroying eachother's outposts etc. The other should be PVE-only, with kitin & goo & primitives & tribes etc being the only threat to the players who try to built there.
I would want a small civilised world - the current world will do for this - controlled by the NPC nations & factions, where most of the story action takes place. I then want this civilised world surrounded by hundreds of square kilometers of no-mans land that is totally shaped by the players. They'd be able to built their own outposts & cities etc there.
Though unlike EVE I want two game-mechanically separate no-mans-lands. One should be open PvP, so it's where the PvP megaguilds can fight over who gets to lord over it, including destroying eachother's outposts etc. The other should be PVE-only, with kitin & goo & primitives & tribes etc being the only threat to the players who try to built there.