Everything is great even Rule number 12,
Oh please, rule number 12 is fine, its fair for everyone else who plays this game. Just because you were the first person to conquer a newb, doesnt mean it is your right to continuously get his income. Most newbs just drop a colony build some units until someone conquers them and never play this game again, and most likley they wont revolt, so that means 600 ticks or so of free resources which you got just because you started this game earlier then others. That to me does not show how awesome and good you are in the game, that just shows me that I saw this guy and conquered him early.
and now I will get a bunch of resources for free.
And guess what if the conquer is active thats a good thing, that means he will be coming after you

Also think of conquers resources like real life, if you do not do work, things dont get done, so when you go give your assingment or paper to your boss, their wont be a finished product, instead a hafly baked finish product.
And people complaining about rank and points, well thats why they increased getting crystals and relics, THAT IS HOW YOU GET RESOURCES!!!!, it promotes more WARS!!, Thats why you build AN ARMY! to get points and GET RELICS, gaining points and power off conquers is very misleading, it doesn't show your true power, In fact true power is seen through how much units you currently have, not of your conquers which you might have gotten early in the game and that have gone AFK for life per say.
learn to actually fight your way to the top, not by picking on the weak.