New Conlang

So Rayanese is on the back burner as I develop a new conlang based on new whims.  I haven’t gotten rid of Rayanese; it still lives in digital suspension with other conlangs of mine.
Like Rayanese, this new language, so far, it looking to be very European-ish in its grammar.  This language will also be highly inflectional.  With reference to its phonology, its consonant inventory is similar to Rayanese, but its vowel are reduced to the five basic vowels of Spanish: /a e i o u/.
I borrowed ideas from my other conlangs and decided I wanted more variety and diversity in my inflectional morphology.  I developed 7 noun declensions (with 8 cases) and 3 verb conjugations (compared to Rayanese’s 2 noun declensions and 1 verb conjugation).
I have decided on the present and past indicative forms of verbs, but I am not set on what my synthetic verb forms will be.  Should I have a imperfective vs. perfective verb system, like Latin?
I am thinking of having 7 tense/aspect combinations: present, aorist (simple past), past imperfect, (present) perfect, future, past anterior and future anterior.  I believe the last four of those tense will use some sort of affixation (probably suffixes).  I still need to set up what sort of system of stems I will use to form these tenses.
In some of my other conlangs, I have gone a bit crazy in creating too many affixes for too many aspects.  I am going to stick to the aforementioned tense/aspect combinations and express other shades of meanings with periphrastic constructions and adverbs.
For verb moods, there will be indicative, subjunctive and imperative.  The indicative will have all tense/aspect combinations, and the other moods will probably be missing at least the aorist.  There may be an optative mood.  I am inclined to use some sort of affixation for the non-indicative moods.
More later!

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