Hey there!
I just had a beautiful strat fight, and am goddam missing it. So I'd like to suggest to have an alternative strat mode, not that sandboxy, key feature would be a Soccer game like set up considering the player recruitment and a way shorter game interval.
Features
-Same map
-player pool of 40/80/100 players or whatnot
-two commanders
-they can pic team members by turns from a pool of volunteer players and assign different roles to them
-strat round goes about one month
-movement speed, troop/gold grinding etc is highly increased
-key positions may be added to the map
-roster support by the whole community ofc.
so think of a 1month real time strategy game with every unit being one team member, and the grinding/ battle system pretty much like in this strat.
actually its just like this strat, only shorter and with two smaller, even teams that fight for the map and that get roster support from the entire community.
I truly believe this might be worth a shot.