I like this kinda concept.  Another game I've tried out has 'just' implemented this system.

They have a new ranking, based on 'honour points'.

If a player attacks people suitable in their range, he gets honour points.  If he attacks people lower, he gets -ve honour points.

Then, if you're in the top % of -ve points, you're called a Bandit.  Then people attacking you have additional advantages.  Eg, in the case of IC, it could be something like ....if you have the Top 5% in dishonour points, when people attack you, they have 20% extra military bonus....or something.

Helps in target selection and 'equaling' out the playing field.  Will prevent farming etc etc.

I like!

This is a really cool idea, but I question the idea of "evil" being a measure of penalties.  I would suggest maybe another term as people often want to play as "evil" in a role playing sense, as you suggest in Pro #3.  This wouldn't work well with a penalty system as you'd effectively be penalizing players from not choosing "the good side".

Perhaps instead, this evil/good balance could be better represented as a measure of honor, as you and Torquez suggested, or even perhaps courage.  Small players/families who consistently attack larger targets could be seen as "brave" or "valiant" whereas farmers could be seen as "cowards" or "bullies".  After all, even "good" people can be cowards, and even "evil" people can live/fight by a sense of a honor.

The great thing here is that there's a good social reward and/or penalty here that's more naturally occurring that anything that could be programmed and as such, require less actual programming work.  For instance, being high on the list of bullies will likely make you a target so you may want to be careful about farming too much.  On the same note, fighting nothing but larger families will put you high on the "Courageous" list, which may be something people naturally strive for.  The benefits of the balance are more imposed by the players' behavior than anything specifically coded into the game.

That's a good point.  Perhaps after a planet is taken, it exists for awhile in a "non-honor-affecting" state by nature of being part of a conflict.  So honor could mostly (or entirely) be a factor in initial attacks, while retakes are fair game for everybody.

An idea:

It would need to be separated by family and player. For instance,

If a player attacks another player that is 15% +/- of his NW then his family will incur the penatly/bonus of nothing. However, if the family that was attacked is not within that 15% then his family has to take a penalty for that.

If a player attacks someone within 30% +/- of his NW then his family incurs a small penalty/bonus. If the family is within 15% +/- then nothing occurs.

If a player attacks someone over 30% +/- of his NW then his family incurs a large penalty/bonus.

The same system works for the family...it would need to be a separate penalty/bonus both for family and player NW's in order to properly set it up. Also, the family penalties/bonus should naturally be larger than that of a player.

So in doing so, say a Family who starts off with a Score of 0 attacks a larger family that is 30% or more larger than them, they would get a bonus of 10 points in the positive, but lose 3 points for hitting a player that was 30% smaller than the attacker. Resulting in a 7 point gain.

Family gains would look something along these lines: 15% or less = 0 points, 16-30% = 5 points, 30% or greater = 10 points
Player gains would look something along these lines: 15% or less = 0 points, 16-30% = 1 point, 30% or greater = 2 points

It doesnt have to be based off of players at all to be honest. It can be based off of family vs family and therefore it would be no different than those games where you play alone.

when i whould have personal tag points who stay threw the years and are putted on a list where all personal tag points are listed
hall of ... ( fame ) idea

and with a changed system based on tagpoints/honorpoints  combined with the tagpoints from that round    minus or plus in that fam

there should be something with this idea what we can do        farming can be minus points overal and personal.    (just a thought and thanks wornstrum)

Big fams always have it rather easy, small fams always have it hard because they always get farmed.

Number 1 and  2, 3 and 4  are always allied with each other.

This is a good concept but needs to be worked out better.
Lets say
Fam A has + 1203 honor
Fam B has - 3021 honor.

Fam A needs to get some kind of payment for their '''good'' behavior. Once you go over, lets say 500+ honor all the people in your fam can do 1 more OB or build 1 / 2 more E-ships. Once fam A goes over 1500 Honor they get another Op slot, so instead of 7 ops they can do 9 now. Fleet moves 20% faster, pop grows 20% faster income increased by 5 / 10% of all buildings.
Fam goes over 3000 honor you unluck the 10th op slot, and gain another buff for your family.

Fam B been a bad boy, - 3000 honor they have been attacking smaller families a lot.

Reduced OP slot. so instead of 7 they go to 4 slots. Income reduced by 5 / 10%
Attacks made by small families of XX% of their Networth have 50 / 100 / 200% more attack power against family members of this fam.

I hope this would make top families stop allying with each other like they do every round and start fighting each other. Ally a top 10 fam so they can clear the little guys from your systems. Work together!

Rough idea but might be nice to test this system in a galaxy

Those are valid questions that are hard to answer without really thinking about how such a system is to work.

If fam A with 3000+ honor wants to farm, well thats up to them, they got 3000 honor to spend. Keep in mind we still have the 35% NW rule. but they will lose their advantages and make themself weaker against family of their own Networth.

it requires much more thinking how this is to work and in the current system and need to be tested aswell.

Maybe in the future open up a testing galaxy every player can join for a round to test the new features.

@Alundra That is a strategy that should be kept ingame.

Small fams wont be doing that really, they probably wont be able to get into top 5 fam systems that easy.  but if you are in top 5 fam yourself and go as tiny attacker in another top fam 5 system they can remove you with another small attacker they have. or ask their top 10 / 20 allies to help out and clear the small players from their systems.

I would like to promote that top fams dont ally with another top fam but with a lesser family