adding features to encourage paying (or asking people to pay) for NAPs?

no.

I read this, then was completely and utterly confused by how people can be so much against payments for NAPs.
It's like a lion asking a prey for food instead of eating the prey, and the prey saying: NO I WILL NOT GIVE YOU FOOD...
The lion will just go: "ok suit yourself, you had a fair option of living, but now you die"

But then KingWild said it already

I agree, would be a good addition to the game CELLS

My problem is paying for NAP's is an "old school" approach. If we want so bad for things to be as in the old days, then what's wrong asking for payment?  It happened all the time early on. Not saying it should be automatic, but to act like it's a disgrace is sad to me.

I dislike planet-demands for NAPs but that's my personal choice; there's no reason to expect everybody to feel (or play) the same way.

Given that some players will do this anyway, it's worth at least considering ways to make it smoother.

This sounds like an extension of the "peaceful takeover" idea that was originally about trading planets between friendly empires.  I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work for NAP deals either.

Similar to above: I can see this being useful generally.  We'd definitely need to consider exploits but there's nothing we can't do without a little forethought and testing.

It comes down to personal goals.  How a player or family achieves "having the most planets at the end" isn't always the same.  If it were only a numbers game, people would be turning on their family members to have the #1 size player rank at all costs.  Clearly, "war etiquette" exists to some degree, despite the size goal.

My own experience hasn't been about toughness or coolness, but rather that the game is far more interested and fun if conflict is embraced, including and especially situations where you know you're fighting a losing battle.  Personal rankings be damned, the real fun in this game is knowing that you're the reason a larger player and/or family lost the #1 spot.

Anyway, I've heard the "courtesy" argument before and while I'm sure it's true to an extent, there's a fine line between that and bullying people into submission.  Of course, that is also valid but it's up there with farming or noobie bashing in my opinion.

But then, it's a war game and all of that is perfectly reasonable.  It's just a matter of the type of player or family people choose to play as.

My main idea behind it is me myself like many would rather die then hand off say 40-100 built planets for a nap. Thats basically suicide anyways.

So if we were able to pay resources and gold just like in real life instead of land that could increase many many things.

For one it will allow the family to rebuild and actually give that family a second smack like they deserve instead of waiting for that precise moment.

...now i wouldnt make it so you can always aid other familys do to i.a but in naps yes.

Use hold a good point it is a war game and why nap and not fight? Well obvious answer is sometimes a temporary nap is needed so the family can have a second shot at the tittle like they deserve instead of complete butt raping the first time through.

Wars are long and can all rely on rl schedule.  Some familys refuse to nap because they know they will get raped if there is a second war. Some familys are greedy and refuse to stop a war unless gained so much planets .this may give them a reason to.

I strongly believe this will help prevent dirty wars and maybe just maybe brinf back a tad ...and i mean just a tad of honor back into ic warfare

Seriously I have the feeling that this whole story is only being seen from the perspective that the winner is always the bad guy because they are taking planets from the poor small fam.
Why should the winning fam always offer a NAP? Bullying a fam into submission, say what? Even if the winning family stops attacking, 98/100 times the small family is so completely raging and angry that they will keep doing ops, doing attacks and silly stuff. Of course we keep taking planets if they keep showing aggresive behavior. Little assessment: we can take about 700 planets more, but hey, I'm not such an evil guy, I'll give you a PNAP for 50. "WHAT PLANETS FOR A NAP YOU BASTARD?! NEVEERRRR"
Please tell me where the logic is in that? That's just suicide like CELLS said.

To top that argument off, the messages people sometimes send you when the war starts, not even considering who will win it, really makes it very unlikely I'll ever offer them a NAP for free.

And another point has to be taken into account. If you have started that war with you biggest competitor for the win, you want to be very certain that you kick them down just enough that they can never overtake you when you sign that PNAP. It would really suck if you do the so called (by some of you) honorable thing and for some brainfart silly reason offer them a (P)NAP for free, and 2 weeks later they have farmed and infrawhored themselves to the #1 spot.
Another reason sometimes you want planets for that NAP, or just continue taking planets.