In general i think it works fine. I'm playing as an attacker in starburst.

TBH i must say i didn't have a lot of action except for some core cleaning so i will give my opinion about that aspect.

We had a small attacker from 01 exploring in our core, at SOR we were badly organised and i was the only one protecting our core. It did cost me a lot of morale to clear him because i was building resources as well. Still i manged to do so. In the end i can only conclude that if you have some active players then you will always be able to clean up your core.

The way morale is calculated also gives small families an advantage. So if an SA of a bigger family explores in your core then the difference between the big well organised family and the inactive smaller family that you are in should give you the possibility to clear him anyway.

On the other side, if a smaller family wants to have some fun they can explore in the core of a bigger family and they will have problems clearing because of the high morale lose. I think this adds a nice offensive aspect to the game. In the end, the bigger family should be more organised and produce more so even if the smaller family can get in a good spot to attack, it'll be very hard for them to break defense on a regular basis.

Small bit of information about the actual warring. The morale i lose when attacking bigger players is doable and i don't know how it works but my general vision is that when you declare war, morale lose should be even lower.

Second point, the formula calculates morale at the moment of attack. Does it take in account the planets you have at that moment or the planets you had the last tick? Because i think, if you want to keep attacking interesting, then you should use the planets and NW amount of the last tick. This way SA's can have some fun and warring with high number of planets moving around should still be possible.

In the end i think everyone wins.

Edit: Like said before, The need for having morale to send a fleet is a very very bad thing. It blocks you completely and doesn't add anything as morale lose will be taken when actually attacking.

Also; You should be able to go negative. Not attacking while negative in morale but attacking with positive morale and ending up negative. This will result in only being able to attack again when above or at 0% morale.

first start by getting lots more morale planets in each round, and up the limit or remove it

should be more size orientated and not networth

Why?  Doesn't nw reflect a family's overall capabilities better than size?  I'd rather be going to war with a family at 10mil nw and 2000 planets than a family with 20mil nw and 1000 planets.

Actually...the driving force behind this change was to make it hard to farm small fams...

played as ss, I was in top family at time, was being hit by guy in number 2 family by guy twice my size, but still coast over 24 moral to hit back, so basically he could hit me twice to every 1 I hit back, now that we are in third it is not as bad, it is frustrating not to be able to defend our selfs, I can see where it would help a small family from being farmed, but it puts to much of diadvange to family similar in size and nw

ok where is this a good part of game, Europe from number 2 family just hit me and took a planet, his NW 1007129 with 30 planets, I am in #3 family, NW 744498, 190 planets, but to retake my planet will coast me 40 moral points, if this is what you guys are shooting for, sorry I do not like it this way, think putting to much on planets and not enough on NW

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You realize that until we made this change nw didn't come into it at all...and it was all planet count...right?

no I did not know that, but you could look at someone's NW and know if you had a chance or not, now I have been only playing a few rounds, but always figured on NW when planning attacks, it was a pretty good indicator on fleet strength, I could be wrong but fleet strength had more to do with your NW than numbers of planets, so you want this game to be about not getting any planets because if you have to many you will be penalized, that the advantage will always go to whoever have the fewest planets, then why explore

am done with this round, I know I am just 1 guy, but will not play with this system, not going to waste my time trying to get as big as I can and have it panelized for having to many planets

I would initiate a hard cap on max morale loss here as well. And not 100 morale. Remove the 110 morale maximum, since you can't go negative in morale anymore. It should be 100. The maximum for an attack should be 50 morale. Also, tie morale loss into attack bonus somehow. The less attack bonus you have, the less morale you would lose during attacks. That will keep non-attacking focused races in the mix, change custom races to a more dynamic setup, and let attackers hunt other attackers more effectively. It would benefit active fams, and yet still allow families that don't have specific attacker races the ability to survive against families that do. More morale would compensate for less fleet since most of their attacks would be retakes and not actual planet gains.

I wake up and I'm out of moral that tick. Seems boring to me. Maybe if both fams declare war with each other there is no moral loss ?

I get the farming part but right now we are in a war not started by us but are bigger and can't keep up. Now imagine last place fam declared war also on one of us.