Level of involvement for players within larger (2h+) games

This is somewhat more of a personal preference for the players themselves as regards to some levels of role-play. I'd like to know whether anyone here would, after a few hours of playing on the same system with the same people, begin to get more attached to their factions.

This is something that actually something that happened to me in quite a few RTS's, like Total War(any of them), Supreme Commander, Age of Empires, Company of Heroes (basically any in which matches could drag on a lot). In a few cases ( though only once with people other thn personal friends, we would start truly roleplaying as 'generals', and devising constrained forms of combat to decide who would win the match. For example, we'd pick out a single 'champion' from any unit in the game to face off in single combat, or do an 'a-move to the enemy base' race without building any more units past the point of deciding that.

It would be pretty cool to see two or more teams deciding unanimously to consider a single planet to be the 'golden goose', and if you could occupy the whole of it at least once you would win the whole match.

TL;DR: Would you like to see people decide what would end a match outside of full conquest?

Re: Level of involvement for players within larger (2h+) gam

Well in terms of scrub tactics and houserule matches there's really no reason that you can't do anything that you want to do if everyone is in on it.

If you're talking an actual "capture the planet" mode that would be sort of interesting. Mod material mayhap?

Re: Level of involvement for players within larger (2h+) gam

I imagine (or rather, hope) someone will mod in extra winning conditions to be set as per the players' desires.