First off let me say last round I was blessed (finally) as every single person in fam was active all round.

But normally not that lucky (like this round - 3 inactives followed by a join/please kill me off)..

Anyway...

How about if the player (aka delete eligible) doesn't login either within the first 4 hours before SOR, isn't drafted into the specific family, nor logs in within 8 hours after SOR the leader is able to schedule a "force delete"?  The leader has up to 12 ticks after SOR to make the delete decision to delete any "delete eligible" players.     With this deletion also comes the fact the deleted starting ressies automatically go to the leader and they cannot rejoin the same family if they do rejoin the galaxy and the family also can not draft someone within 24 ticks of force deletion.   Can also make it where leader doesn't get ressies until tick 13, but, if the person does login within 12 ticks is automatically re-instated to keep the leaders from abusing by "deleting" semi-active players to get the ressies.

I'd also like to see it if someone manually deletes they cannot join same galaxy for rest of round unless they're "drafted" into a specific family prior to the deletion (IE - a good reason to delete because you found your friend and wanted to join their fam).   This would resolve those "delete me please so I can get into a better family" jokers

Everything I listed would in essence do multiple things...

End SOR inactive handicaps as leader could pass those ressies around (expos are diff but most aren't building expos 100% within first couple days so this may work itself out)
Keep peeps from manually deleting someone "not inactive but also not able to be on at SOR) to get their ressies while drafting their buddy in
Keep peeps from deleting until they hit a high rank/active fam.   If players were active in fam they landed in they may help others...