We are trying to reduce the power of suiciding no?...

To be fair, it's the player's choice. They could just as easily sell their stock in one go with no military and fund a suicider. Hopefully players will realize this and guard their stock a little more carefully as necessary.

Resource decay adds a lot of interesting strategy to the game, which I like. The added complexity is good.

I've seen talk that we want to weaken suiciding, but I've not seen much of anything to actually weaken it, aside from the nearly useless prohibition about dropping land that you just grabbed.

The dropping land made it harder to stay low net for grabbing, having huge spal, and max techs.