Regarding the part that's talking about reducing punishments i have suggested a following idea:

Instead of banning players for something that is breaking rules, but doing so really stupidly or not being a huge break of rules, players should be given a warning. For example - Fake4 got banned for placing sand in siege zone that later cannot be broken. And when player reaches 3 warnings(for example) it'll be automatic 30d ban. This will still punish players for breaking rules, but leave some room for people to not get banned right away for some small thing they did

The whole concept is really cool and It would be nice to get the highlight feature on nations too, it'd be really good for movecraft coordination, such as highlighting targets and etc