With the new formula this would mean smaller players get even a better morale advantage, so there's that.

But in both cases (new and old formula) it will make attackers' roles more important, while all I'm hearing from bankers is complaining how they're not involved enough in wars. So let's not make things worse for those poor bankers.

Also, try to imagine how fam set up would be. Probably one huge banker, one huge resourcer and everyone else as small as possible for war with as high as possible military bonuses. Sitting on their asses doing nothing until war arrives.

I disagree. Military bonus has never been so important. You want to stay low in nw, so you need good military bonus to get an optimal strenght/nw. Meaning construction bonus has become less important, and Military bonus is now more important than ever.

Also, there is reason to believe it will change. I'm referring to this thread:

https://imperialconflict.com/forum/view … ?id=202170

First of all, if your assumption is you'll be a small family, you're doing it wrong. Infra is this inferior right now, anyone with the will too grow can easily compete with the better economies. It might just take a bit more effort. That aside:

If you are talking about "farming" (not that anyone has farmed anyone since new morale rules, clearly everyone has forgotten what qualifies as farming):

1/ Usually the better organized (read: bigger fams) have the better Military bonus. I don't forsee any changes here. It just makes sense: you need to prepare for cancellation wars, have the resources to invest in research and have the option to think long term. Certainly when you compare it to smaller families who are often struggling to keep up. Or like you mentioned, invest a lot in rebuilding while or after getting hit. And even if they can keep up, it will because they have invested less in for example research. This is not a theory, but an observation.

2/ Equal military bonus on both families will mean more caps from fam #1 and more retakes from fam #2. The more caps, the more the (infra of the) smaller family gets hurt. And sure, they can do more retakes too, but it won't weigh up against the infra loss.

The only real difference I can forsee is the difference in fam set up, the risk of having  70% players who're just doing nothing until there's a war (because you'll want as many players as possible with high % military bonus).

I kinda like it, but it needs to fit in the total picture of the whole morale calculation/formula.