[Menschenfresser]

If I remember correctly in Caesar 2, the AI armies had morale as well, but I am pretty sure it was reset with every new battle that took place, which was not so for the player. That's not a realistic way to go about it in SE4, but what about a natural decay rate or rather increase rate in bad morale for the AI. Something along the lines of the natural anger decrease that is in the game already. That way it would be modable. This certainly should not be the case with Human empires though.

Either that or as mentioned, the bonus. Maybe both. And the reverse should be true that the human empire's morale drops dramatically when the computer destory's its ships.

Another thing, and this pertains mostly to the math that would support all this. I really like the idea that SJ mentioned earlier, where a long war between two empires would grind down morale. In order for this to happen, the plus/minus ratio would have to be on the side of the minus. I guess what I am getting at, is say if you destroy one of your opponent's ships and he destroy's one of yours, both of equal value and without a computer bonus, will your morale go down, or even out?

Just more blah...