You seem to forget that nobody cares about Score.

You can't change people's playing style by giving imaginary points as a reward. If we want more conflict there should be more reason to war. For example make the families smaller so you get more families and more competition, make the galaxy smaller and have less systems.

The changes that have been made before the start of the current round are devastating to the conflict in the game. There are more planets per player and fewer families than last round. This will ensure an explo phase lasting the entire round and only 2-3 families to attack for the entire round.

A different score system won't give more conflict if the mods don't think about the consequences before implementing mayor changes.

Best Idea I have read in a long time.

It would make score actually usefull

this is a great idea but paashaas does raise a very valid point.  imagine all the good it'll do IC if you do both (i.e. change how score is calculated AND make families smaller so you have more overall)

nonetheless, i don't think it'd be a good idea to steal score when you take planets because that might still encourage farming.  BUT if you implemented a bonus multiplier based on whether the family you're attacking is bigger or smaller than you, i think it would give fams more incentive to fight someone bigger than them

Score is dumb and should never have been implemented in the first place. Families should be ranked by size for default.