[Phil^]

and i suppose you have an algorithm to hand which can perfectly distinguish things like farming from normal attacks or coincidental attacks?
There are rules in place because certain things are problematic at best to hard code, and others have the potential for being too limiting.
By making rules, it allows greater flexibility in cherrypicking the events which are not permitted from those which are fine.
Being unable to implement it in design does not lead on to just accepting the existance of something

In the case of support planets, its perfectly clear and understandable.
alliances shall have x members, no more. the limit of the tag size was supposed to accomodate this, but someone decided that this wasnt good enough for them. They wanted an advantage over all the others and so used out of tag support planets.
This is the legacy of that choice, a choice made for purely selfish reasons - and one that everyone must live with the consequences of

It is players like this, who try to bend, break or flat out ignore rules and their intents which you should be focusing on, instead of crying out about the consequences of their actions.