I agree with both sides, covopping is *the* way for a small planet to play,, and it's a fair tactic imo. I don't believe that a big group of small players would/should be able to completely unseat a top player (at least not in a few days).
The problem I have with this is that the big player cannot do anything against these "annoying little pests". I think there should be a special anti-covop-covop. "Steal memberlist" or something
. This would give the big player the opportunity to do something against the smaller one: make sure the covops from that particular planet will have a much higher chance of failure for a certain amount of ticks. Size difference would have to have an inverse effect tho: the bigger the difference, the more effective. This would not stop every single covop, so big players will never be 100% safe, but would be a tool against one single planet continuously covopping the same player.