Wouldn't it be cool if the players could buy bots from the equipment screen? Then everybody could have a couple AI buddies with them. There could be different types of bots with different costs. A peasant bot would only cost like 50 bucks while a heavily armored knight bot would cost 500.
2: The way this is set up, it sounds like it would be one really long battle, which would make it hard for people to join mid game.
This might be fix by simply giving everyone one life, but it would still be quite a wait.
Well, Tribes 1 supported 128 players and that game came out 10 years ago. If they have a good netcode and some powerful servers, they should be able to support 100 players.
The devs just need to copy the Horde mode in Gears of War 2 or the Firefight mode in Halo ODST. Those modes are really great and I would love to see them in Mount & Blade.
I think there should be some Push maps where the defending team would control all the flags in the beginning and the attacking team would have to capture them in numerical order. Once a flag has been captured by the attackers, the defenders can't take it back anymore. I really liked maps like that in Battlefield.
They should make the "warband" mode a serverside option. Then you could have normal servers and special warband servers where all gametypes would use the warband setting which would allow players to control a group of AI soldiers. Certain gamemodes such as Siege would be so much cooler if there were over 100 soldiers fighting instead of "just" 64. The warband mode would be even cooler if players could customize their own warbands and select what type of troops they command and what kind of equipment they use.
I suggest you add some unique features into the Conquest mode so that it isn't too similar to the Conquest mode in the Battlefield series. Perhaps the captured locations could spawn AI troops every couple minutes for the faction that is controlling them or maybe there could be some weapon/armor chests near the flags. These chests would sometimes contain really powerful equipment so controlling them would be really important.
I would like to see a co-op mode that's similar to the Horde mode in Gears of War 2 where the players would have to survive against huge waves of AI soldiers.