Noir & Ilu what you fail to see here is that some people have a life, and they cannot be behind the computer 24/7 to play Orion, and the setup mods designed is allowing this people to play actually and get a chance.
I'm one of those small bugs you both seem to hate, and Ilu if you're so concerned about Noir attacking the weak players in the center clusters why dont you do it yourself??
Now the question, is it worth to suicide half of your fleet in all those DSs to get a reward of 30 maybe 40 planets??
NO
What is worth is to attack the big fishes in systems they cannot place a DS, any big empire this round have easy planets like those, but it seems you are only capable of attacking the small ones (like ever?) and find this time those small bitches arent that easy to kill.
What you fail to see is that mods allowed 3 Home Systems and you have to live with it, because you have your 3 HSs too, eztremely defended, and the small bitches are having fun warring between themselves and attacking DSs for a few planets.
So grow your ballz you infrawhores and start attacking big fishes like yourselves and let the small ones play their round and have fun, its damn annoying that you always want to win by attacking the weaker. Now this is not worth for you farmers, and I applaud the mods for this setup 