From my perspective, being in 3679:
- I pretty much felt choked in terms of space we had. With 10 player fams this galaxy probably should have been bigger. Closest enemy HS was just 7 camaar ticks...
- I don't like we had to wait 48h to kick inactives that actually told me 48h before SOR that they are not playing with us.
- I don't like people can go inactive, take up space in the fam for 48H and after that can rejoin the round, while the player that deletes at start of round to help the fam is given a penalty by not allowing to join the round anymore.
- We still have 3 fams left to fight....., but just 3 days left.
- In general I think marines showed the morale system is messed up. Don't jump, raid bankers, wait while everything portals and the enemy struggles with morale to retake, than jump when portals come in and clear everything.

For next round I would like to see a different criteria for round win, than size. Suggestions:
- King of the hill. Designate target planets that you must hold. Each tick you hold a planets is worth points. First fam to 1000 points wins
- NW race. First fam to 10 mill NW wins

For reference. Current stats:
Rank      Family                                                 Planets      Networth      Score
1    Rogue One (3684) [57,6]                              775    15335336    98860   
2    Still Hunting Angels... (3679) [37,22]    1310    15048312    133081   
3    SEVEN (3685) [62,51]                              826        14063002    100705   
4    THE U.S. MARINE CORPS (3683) [22,42]    1488    11479674    131556   
5    *Cars* (3681) [39,61]                              492    11021347    113300   
6    Dark Angels (3680) [77,32]                      757    9636179      113207   
7    Penelope Pitstops Pink  (3678) [77,72]      357    8662181            49865   
8    best round ever~!! (3682) [21,79]              487    7043621       74015

I'm surprised to hear people want a bigger galaxy.  Was there too much conflict this round?

I'm considering disabling morale for next SB round to get a better sense of the underlying issues, similar to how we allowed IA for SN this round.

Morale won't be fixed any time soon, and even just reverting it is a fair amount of work that won't be done in time for the new SB round.

Disabling it though is possible, and having it out of the way could give us a better feel for what exactly needs balancing.

We were in 4 or 5 wars this round and every war I was raided, shares or not. It sucks to have to rebuild your empire 5 times over because camaars are raiding you from 3 ticks away from there HS. Making it a bigger galaxy adds some protection to bankers and resources and will make attackers fight each other before they can launch banker raids.