Farming AI "Strat" on Final Stage of Fleet Battle

I've seen this team strat multiple times while playing and it honestly takes all the fun out of the game.

Once on the final stage of destroying the Flag ship and the attackers have at least one frigate remaining the attackers can utilize the "danger zone" to keep themselves permanently on the attack with very little chance for the defenders to fight back.
Essentially the attackers can farm morale off the AI ships and by staying in the "danger zone" area created by their frigate can flip the moral bar back in their favour without engaging or being harass by the defenders. The defenders cant engage player ships or farm their own moral, Once the moral bar is fully back in the attackers favour they attack dealing damage to the defenders capital ship before going and farming moral again.

There's no dogfighting apart from the previous 2 stages and more often than not the game ends because the time runs out, essential you can stall out the game to a win so long you've done more damage to the flagship then the enemy

My two solutions are:
1. AI defender ships do not add to the moral bar in the final stage of fleet battle (Attacking the Flagship)
or
2. Have the attacker's moral drop if there is no damage done to defending players or the flagship