NOTE: This idea is credited to Hagintora. He posted an excellent idea to a thread and I felt it needed a place of it's own. Also note, this is more an idea for a future release as content. I'm well aware of the fact there are more important things to worry about. But if CCP get's wind of this and decides to put it on the list then this thread will have served its purpose.

The idea is this: What if there was no immediate term of victory in a battle? Let's say there's a major land grab by two large player corps. One of them really wants a section of space controlled by another, and the defending corp is not willing to give it up, at all. So both sides fight until one of them decides to give up.

Now think about this for a sec. This is a fight for a section of space. How much are you and your corp willing to loose (in terms of ISK) in order to keep your pocket of space your own? All of it? So much you actually go into debt?

How it would work would be something like this.

There would be one or two Commander type players who don't directly participate in the battle. Instead they direct troops and review the current stats of the battle. How much ISK the battle's cost them so far, how many clones have been killed and vehicles destroyed on the enemy side and various other bits of vital information that would help the Commander decide if they should withdraw or stand and fight some more. Only the Commander can make the withdraw order, so the power to win/loose the game is in the hands of a single pair of players, and it's a matter of finding out who will give in first.

A Player-determined victory means a battle can last for hours, even days! And for some reason, the whole idea just fits in perfectly with New Eden imo because think of EvE for a second. In a battle with over 1000 ships, how long do you think that battle would take? It would certainly take one good chunk of time to destroy every single one of those ships, so why can't we have something similar in DUST? A battle that can rage for as long as we have the resources and manpower to fight it.

Let me know what you all think.

P.S: I just woke up and wrote this ... so if there are gaps in the explanation then I don't mind answering questions. Feedback, both negative and positive is welcome ...