What is the most sane way of adding an alternate winning condition?

I am guessing it is just adding more code at the scope of a map that runs the check for the condition.

Let's assume I wanted to make a timed FFA match which declares that declares the player or team with the most energy at the end of the time. I guess what I would do is take a map like Violence_4.2 add the Lua code would measure the time, display the time, check the win condition, and end the match with the right winner. Then I would need to upload that to https://springfiles.com/.

raaar just made a map https://springfiles.com/spring/spring-maps/crucible http://zero-k.info/Maps/Detail/58103 where a lava timer is a feature of the map itself. My timer would probably have to be a widget.

Is this anywhere on the right track?

Old Zero-K Dota had a similar feature. Once you lose your main base then no matter how many commanders and units you had you will still lose. You will need to ask Rafalpluk about this and how did he manage to code. I think that also Alcur has some knowledge about special win conditions on maps.

Sprung did something: https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/commit/905ae5ab580ef83ac18296c9d89b064a99619829

Note that a team is a set of controlled units. An allyTeam is a 'side'.