its not even that now that they've changed the game like this its better to be low activity that way u can pick on big fams and make it hard for them to retake.. u don't even have to expo in core u can just expo around them.. they cant retake all the planets u send cause its costing 40-50% morale to even retake.. hell this is worst then anything u cant even match attacker vs attacker cause for the simple fact one or the other will lose 2-3 times more morale then the other.. its lame we have to rely on one biase opinion of one mod cause the others don't play.. its dumb kick those off who aren't playing.. I'm sick of these mods who haven't played in years making changes and calling it fair its dumb and stupidity on Stefans part to all the shit.. that's why he cant keep a player base.. it use to be simple.. u work hard and active u win.. now all u have to do is stay semi active wait for their is a large enough gap around the no.1 spot expo around them laser trap jump fleet and attack.. hell ops cost the larger fams 20-30-40% morale while their spending 10-14% per attack.. way to [pump] up IC even more..

We haven't had the top fam not be top yet....

Moral sucks when your fam big. Being small in old style sucked.

Now instead of people bitxhing about farming or paying to much for nap there's actually the chance to fight back. Being a good attacker in a bottom fam you have a chance. Take a bottom fam without an attacker they'll still be bottom. Take a top fam who doesn't have good attackers or only one then your going to struggle.

Now you can have one rez and one banker because attackers are important. All size attackers. Small attackers are back. Retakes need to know how to hold planets. Bankers need to know how to defend planets. Large fams need to know how to expo.

ADJUST

foohonian.. then simply dont explore there where you're not able to defend the planets..
Now you're just having lame excuses.
being the fam with most nw at this part of the game doesnt make you the top fam.
other fams might aswell be just as active but maybe have a better plan.. waiting for some noobish fam to have nice infra fat planets and simply steal them..
The game changed and you guys are sticking to much in the past...
It doesnt matter who has the best infra at this point.. it only matters who's on top in the end..

ADJUST

^ you just said brightest bulb in the knife drawer

haha

sure foohon.. if you dont see what your doing wrong with how the game works at this moment.. please keep doing so.
maybe... just maybe... the "small" fams are staying small for a reason?

The moral system as it is sux's.
Plan and simple
It's gone from one extreme to the other
From larger family farming smaller ones to smaller ones farming larger ones

The moral loss is stupid. 
Smaller families able to attack 7-1 is stupid

doomedman... i like that idea

Cloud, i believe defense stations were limited because big families could afford to put a DS in as many systems as they liked. The cost for a DS has never ever been an issue for a big fam. The 40% NW rule was not so good because it was an easy and over-used tactic to take advantage of a late joiner by sending him into cores of a big fam with no chance of being cleared unless someone drops a lot of NW.

My idea is... family protection mode after losing 10% of total planets. Most fams have over 1000 planets now... 100 planets is a good haul from a war and then the farming would not carry on for days and days of raid after raid. It's not so bad losing a war, it's the never-ending raids and eventual farming afterwards that really sucks.

Not just the larger family though. The current problem is that the larger families are being punished for being larger already. Small families should have to receive a scaling penalty too. Maybe have it based on something measurable like pcount, NW or attacks made against the family in the last 24 hours. Something to stop small fams from being able to make *substantially* more attacks in a long, drawn-out war. Eventually neither fam will be able to make more than 3 attacks a day and the war would be over

this round i'm the "small" player.. it's not even that i'm small.. it's just that i'm the only one in the family who's playing.
i have to admit.. the ammount of "power" this morale protection is giving me is unreal..
Attacking me back costs 100% morale.. even for players 30% of my NW (who are never gonna bust my portals)
i know this is an exceptional situation but it shows that the morale system is crooked

I dunno, I thought this round was funny. But I'm in 1970, so I guess that is why. Colo seems to understand and use this system to a very fine point, allowing our family to drain a lot of the high-nw families by simply running a smaller-NW family tightly organized strictly for war.

Our plan has always been to stay fighting, instead of infraing, and as a small family, this system allows us to do that, very successfully.

Death man, your assumption that the smaller families have to be semi-active losers, that anger must sit deep? Speaking for my family, we are very active considering the general levels of activity in the game now. We just had a different strategy than you guys, and in the long run it appears to have paid off. Understanding the playing field before going to war, is that not one of the key parts in the Art of War, by the dude in your signature ?

Let me put it into an example you can understand ;

A lion is fighting a horde of tuna in the middle of the ocean, the lion will die. It does not take advantage of its strengths and thinks its size and weapons will matter in an enviroment they are strictly ineffective.

Either become a shark or drown. The tuna wont care about a silly lion.

dont use a pop banker and if ya jump people jump by person to person so you keep get infra  overall base