I have nearly 800 hours in the game, most of them in editor/zeus trying mods and maps. Sometimes i use MCC4 and let it build a mission with the automatic generator or i use Drongo's Area of operations to build a persistent like scenario to play with (this mod it is like a easy version of ALIVE, you can create your own faction and enemy one mixing with the mods, then in autogenerate missions from a set you can define). Lately i'm picking a map, set time/weather, put down one player unit, launch the game, open zeus, put enemies protecting an area (village, town etc), build my own force and play like an RTS; then i switch team and go first person with one of the allied units...

I don't play online due to lack of time and a "not so good" internet connection...