Some faction positions in plant wars say "controls ground troops in battles" but I don't know if that even provides a function. There are concerns about newer players(alright, I mean worse players. a bunch of the newer players don't count here) jumping the gun on planetary defenses, so it could be a good idea to create a role who moderates who gets to play certain battles.
Planets are designated as "high priority" planets in 2 ways. 1: the home world or neighboring the home world or 2: set by faction general. Faction general can only declare one "high priority planet" at a time, with an hour's delay between switching it(other wise abuse coming up.) Faction general and anyone who they see fit becomes a governor of the matchmaker in some way, where if there's players joining an attack or defense of a planet that is "high priority," everyone who joins the matchmaker for this planet joins a queue and the general or players they deem fit get to hand-pick the duo or trio of commanders joining the fight. On defense, if clock hits 0 from 5 mins a squad is randomly chosen from the queue. On attack It's a lot more complicated, because it may not even be needed, but for the sake of my perspective "if a planet gets max players allotted, the queue jumps to 1 min remaining. The first planet to get the required squad gets priority, unless the general/general's sub position chooses a full squad for the high priority planet from the high priority planet's queue."
The idea of this system is to allow faction leaders to concentrate war efforts without preventing the "do no harm" aspect of letting players play their own battles, or to interrupt the flow of new battles starting. New players should be able to join battles for attack and defense of normal priority planets with almost no hiccups but the faction should also be able to put their best players where they want them, with large constraints. Players must be online, you cannot stop a faction from steamrolling during good players' off hours, and MOST IMPORTANTLY this high priority only accounts for 4 planets on the map: the home system and one point to move. Abuse could be switching that point furiously preventing the lowest skill players from playing, but if there's a time cap after change then that abuse falls away. Unless a faction is bottled up only in the home world, then there is incredible harm wasting turns because the win condition is so close.
However, there may not be enough players to need such a complicated system in the first place, and I have 0 ideas about implementation, because implementation in-lobby already looks a bit sparse planet wars side.
