My thoughts:

CHANGE #1: All countries start in GDI and all countries can leave GDI at any time but cannot rejoin.

I've been suggesting this in multiple places. I've said before that Express and Primary is too easily suicided on unless GDI was opt-out, particularly for new players.



CHANGE #2: A country is kicked out of GDI if it does 5 or more landgrabs on the same target.

5 is too many. Make it 3. The rule also suggests that if 2 countries exchange 2 landgrabs with each other, they can still both war each other to death but neither will exit GDI as long as they don't make a 3rd grab on each other, and only use special attacks from that point onwards.



CHANGE #3: Special attacks do not add to the defender's DR.

The problem I have with this is that a country being ABed or BRed into a useless country will be grabbed by other countries taking advantage of the situation, making it even harder for said country to make a comeback. However, this does solve a variety of "hiding in DR" problems and the pros probably outweighs the cons.

@oldman A bunch of SS/PSes DH to get someone into DR will be extremely clear that its purpose is abuse (is the a country-deletable offense?). This is unlike special attacks which is ambiguous in nature.



CHANGE #4: If in the past 24 hours a country has landgrabbed you and you have not landgrabbed them since, your first retal will ignore DR rules.

Sounds fine, and solves a lot of problems in conjunction with change #3.