Thanks!  Means a lot to see some people appreciate how much time we put into this at no real benefit to ourselves

In my opinion the moral rules work in that they stop big fams from being able to farm the little guys.
Where they do not work is when smaller fams attack and you do not even have enough moral to do retakes.
I am in family 3* and it is costing me 10% moral to retake from family 6*'s biggest attacker who is over a THIRD bigger than me in NW.... (there family is ahead of mine in score & size)
I know the moral accounts for families NW  but I think 10% is far to high.... Even with moral planet bonus's I can't even send retakes to a whole system.

1    StarGate (1966) [14,6]    1295    12425911    57642   
2    100% Beast Mode (1967) [72,57]    1237    12110122    60639   
3    Back In Time (1971) [88,27]    1049    7158068    30614   
4    old school (1972) [95,80]    802    6632862    34240   
5    ~New Beginning~ (1969) [64,4]    821    6331504    22752   
6    Get a Life! (1970) [43,30]    1166    5920287    37392   
7    Time for the reconnaissance (1968) [24,59]    952    4379291    27547   
8    I come in peace (1973) [38,87]    133    785291    2387

Also, to try and further explain our situation to the community, since a few of you are under the impression that we're ignorant idiots throwing numbers around

We actually have a number of balance changes we plan on making, but we're only able to make them one at a time (if we implemented everything at once there'd be no way of knowing what worked and what didn't).  Also, and this is the biggest problem, we don't have enough players to set up an area for beta testing.  What we get to do, is test stuff to the point that we can be..uhh....reasonably certain that the server won't explode when we implement the change....then we implement it...and get to see what happens.  We'd love to be able to set up a beta testing environment with an accelerated format where we have 10 families with 10 players each so that we could test the effects potential changes before implementing them into the main game...but we don't have 100 total.  What we're forced to do is implement changes slowly after running as many numbers as we can (i have some super crazy spreadsheets).

That all being said, I apologize if at any point I'm rude in my responses.  I try to take at least a small chunk out of each day to jump on the forums and check out what you guys are saying.  Typically it's incredibly frustrating as we're a game of veterans who complain that we need changes, then complain when we make changes because changing is hard....and that's fine, we're all playing a 17 year old game that has experienced very little change since it's inception...but I still show up.  I might get testy, I might sarcastically respond to something after already responding to the same complaint 3 other times in different places, but we're still working to keep this thing going.