It would be nice if you could set a setting that required you to declare war before attacking.

Yup, you would need set # of turns warning, and possibility to make peace again.
A setting for how many players you would have to be at war with at the same time could go nice with this(to keep everyone from just stacking)

why not make a clot that could do that? i hate how many diplomacy games there are nowadays, it seems like half of the open games are nonmembers begging members to make one... get a membership people. And also anytime i try to play a decent 24 player ffa about 6 people get mad because they think someone has to declare before attacking

do members already have any of the options i spoke of ?
Are they easier to implement on a CLOT ?

I agree there should be a setting where you can declare war by a click of a button :)