So, bases

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Hm Cannon can use the script written for docking bays in order to reduce the amount of docked ships in POBs. I guess it should be technically possible to give 10-15 docking spots per level or similar.
In general bases can go up to core 10, 4 is the server limit now as far as I know.
I does not see as good idea to limit them, I would change them however and let them to go to 10 by adding ton of different stuff but it requires production on bases and ship production on bases. This is too hard for devs to be done fast- it requires total rebalance of the trading and total shift of cap ship production to POBs.
Sadly 90% of the reasonable changes require a lot of Cannon work and he is quite a busy guy. The best possible thing is to find someone else good with writing such scripts to help him.

Even if you limited how many ships can be docked at a base, that still wouldn't stop some of those ships docked being the base owners and stock piled with resources. Thinking in general, and don't even know if this is technically possible.

But when a base is under attack (it's shield is up). Disable the base from being able to be traded too. That way it wouldn't matter how many ships can dock their, if it cannot be traded to while shield is up. Then that would force the base owners into having to fight the base attackers off - until base shield goes down again allowing them to trade with base. That would do away with the problem of while a base is under attack, base owners simply switch to an account docked and trade goods to repair - if they cannot do it while bases shield is up.

in otherwords, when a bases shield is up, base trading is completely disabled.