Galaxy size is crazy. I haven’t played in 5 years but some of the system to next closest system jumps are far too long even for camaar to attack effectively.
Although I suspect I missed the boat on this conversation at some point in recent years I really think inter family planet attack/swap should affect morale. It puts the bottom 80% of fams at such a disadvantage its almost a guarantee that they get smashed/farmed as mentioned in this thread already. I can’t see how that possibly changes without morale affecting inter fam attacks. More likely than not they end up farmed early and have to wait forever/get bored and leave the game - so it’s not even like they are getting 75, 85, 95% of the way through the round until they lose a ton of planets (and motivation for the round). Now they have a far longer window to sit around and wonder about what to do next round, or find something else to do altogether.
It is also wild how many morale planets exist, far too many considering you barely have to use morale and even though I heard it is capped, at some point yet again that extra morale bonus does very little for the bottom 80% and just pure advantage for the top. So they are easy to get and don’t help a large portion of the player base and the group it does help is already at a massive advantage.