well in large fams defense.. u mean to tell me now ur penaltizing ur active fams who build faster then others.. that's lame.. u give more power to the people who have not spent as much time in as others to be able to have a advantage over them.. they can expo 20 all over ur core and because people whine about farming the big fam has to take a risk of letting them portal in core cause it core 40%-60% a attack. in this stupid stuff u call core systems what benefit does it give to do this and render the war option useless it makes no sense.. its like here advantages to being inactive or not good in this game.. nobody trying to farm well atleast not 67.. but yet a fam that's 4 ranks below us can expo all over us cause us to attack them constantly and raid new expos cause they feel like it and it cost us 30-40% a attack and u call that fair? hell no that's another way of abuse... and in these so call core systems u guys given us.. that's dumb u.. u guys make changes to the game and don't consider all the variables then say its a testing round or we cant make all the changes at once.. how about do make changes until they are all worked out and through of in every aspent..

This is a rambling mess...but i'll give it a go.

Penalizing the super active families evens the playing field for the rest of the galaxy.  The fact that you have to worry about the mid ranked families just gives us more competition.  The high activity of a few players isn't the norm, thus if we don't give some advantage to players that can't dedicate 12 hours a day, we'd have no competition.

The war option isn't compatible with the new morale system in it's current state.  Core systems were added because top families were complaining about small attackers coring their bankers, if you explore properly now their advantage in morale is halved inside your core now.  The fact that some top families didn't take advantage of this system, and and are at risk of coring because of it, is a flaw of the strategy, not the system.
current round example (using the average of 20 planets per system):
1967
1152 total planets (as of now)
26 core systems
45% planets protected by cores

1966
1133 total planets (as of now)
15 core systems
26% planets protected by cores

1972
735 total planets (as of now)
23 core systems
62% planets protected by core

If you fill your core, you're not at risk of people exploring all over you.  Saving 100% of resource bonus planets for resourcers while bankers explore elsewhere, leaving holes in your core, is now a calculated decision to not take advantage of having more systems that cost twice the morale to attack.

A similar calculated risk is pop banking. 
As of this tick, I'm the #3 income banker.  My income/(nw/planets) ratio isn't nearly as good this round as it was last round, because since we're in a small family I'm ridiculously defense heavy....but even with that added nw compared to top banker, I'm 60% of his income while being 42% of his nw (If I had normal defense & to/rc ratio I'd be about 85% of his income, but with this current system starting RC heavy to boost research and then deleting them later in the round to replace with to's is the most efficient route). That extra 1.7mil nw + the nw that comes with the farms needed to feed him is a significant drain on your morale.   (we're discussing ways to make pop banking viable)

Another way to save or spend morale is how you use your ops!  If you're in a family that's twice the size of a family you're attacking, do you:
A.  old standard:
PI (5 morale)
IP (5 morale)
cpff or sab (aggressive op, equal to attack)
Clear planet (attacking morale)

or
B.
Maintain infil (5 morale, good multiple weeks)
Use estimation to judge amount of fleet necessary to clear the planet (0 morale)
Clear planet (attacking morale)

We've discussed a means of setting up a mechanic like this, but there are a lot of issues (I have a running list of them on my home desktop that I'll post later )
Chiefly:
1.  there would likely be no way to get the mechanic to only target the aggressor, meaning if family A attacks family B, family B get's reduced morale...but as soon as family B attacks family A, family A also gets reduced morale.  (this was originally discussed to replace the war option)  With the possible tweaking of a minimum morale loss on attacks, this could work out.
2.  When starting a war, why would you ever attack first?

I agree with IC Death here, first that mods careless about the game or improvement, second that they've changed the game in a way that it's quickly becoming unplayable. There's only 8 fans as it is, of which round after round maybe only 4 are active with a grand total of about 20-30 actives round long. Mods have taken away an ability to attack people even further which virtually makes no sense, are we not suppose to use the fleets page? Are top fams suppose to build and grow just to attempt to fend off small families while being unable to effectively attack anyone theirselves?

Hmm sounds about right IC is trash and is just further proving it lol, would expect nothing less from this game

~ Cloud

Death, cloud, your wasting your breathe on this. Mod team clearly don't understand they jumped the gun. Their heads in the right place, but this is completely pre mature. Besides they've said themselves they don't care about the people who have played for years, just the 1-2 people who join a round

I play every round, and actively look for ways to work with the new system.  Typically I break down my findings and try to spell out new potential strategies (see above) since everybody else wants to go back to the same morale system that they forget they hated....It's like my wife thinking she wants to be pregnant again because she forgets how terrible it was .  Not my fault at all if people don't take advantage

Also Foohon, the mods didn't say they didn't care about the old players.  I personally said I care more about new players than veteran players with bad attitudes

Yes they can do more attacks, but there's no reason you shouldn't have the defense to slow them down.  With your greater resources and experience, each one of your attacks should be successful...while their attacks, if you take care of your defenses, will only be able to target undefended planets.

Fill
Your
Core

When you get tips on how to best use a system from one of the developers of the system, and continue to ignore them that's on you.

You can't stop it doesn't matter what defense you have. They can explore right next to your filled core systems and you won't be able to clear them all and then they have 1-2 tickers on all your bankers and ressors.. It was costing 25-50 morale for our smallest guy to hit their ppl exploring next to us. We even had all bankers and ressors retaking planets and they stopped opping to do so. You just can't clear fast enough when they are portalling in 25-30 ticks. And you just can't get everyone enough defense when you have to protect 6+ Ppl. They only have to jump one fleet... you've certainly accomplished you're goal of evening the playing field but it's just boring now. You might as well just give everyone a set amount of planets and infra and let them duke it out. At least that way you won't have every fam adjusting to the new rules by just not exploring and staying small.. Bc that's where this is going and it's just not fun. I won't participate in that.

So that being said when is a legit HC round gonna start lol

Here's what I don't understand.  Even more then the mods denying that there's even a problem.  Why do you people keep playing.  Everyone keeps saying that the new moral system sucks, but you guys are still playing.   Why???

Maybe there really isn't any problem.

big infra means easy to get big defenses low infra means lower defense
big infra lead means players who are playing active low infra means players not that active  to get same result
and ya with nw wise you need to play smart no pop bankers just cfs saw it last round with nick as cf banker way safer also incase off ops pop banker you can kill complete income cf just lose some  with hurricanes  but still make some  nw off fam way lower results way better morale to spend on higher level who keeps infrawhore till they double our maybe higher in infra nw
for atackers is it way more fun in lower nw ranked fam with still solid infra to do things then in  a infrawhore fam with sitting like a duck you cant do a jackle then have nw problems because you wanna own all fams on infra

so no popbankers just cf bankers
dont take to high defenses if no need saves all nw! so also better morale to use  and what nick said is right use the core systems in old fashion playing field you did also always have locked core filling systems by systems incase you get small atackers intruding core what eated youre morale complete you only now have way better defensed  core keep filling up youre systems and it get also morale wise better protected

well thats what you get for napping the other biggest fam in the galaxy because you want to farm.