So, bases

[GTB]

Construction, upgrades, maintenance requires commodities, transports flying around for stuff and periodically docking on the station, but are not there constantly. On the contrary, base sieges require constant presence in the vicinity of the station, and just miss half a minute of constant pew on the station, shields go down, a transport docks, and refills pretty much what has been shot down in the past hours.

Doesn't make a difference that a base owner is not "sat on their base" all the time 24/7. If they are away from it trading goods ready to bring back, then they are still spending time "dedicated to the base". Very little time in fact is spent sat on a POB, mostly you are usually away from it trading goods for it, which is still time spent on the base - no matter how you look at it.

Also agree with what another said, you have a window of opportunity to take bases out pretty easy when at Core 1 and 2 stage. If you take don't action then, make the most of that chance to kill them. Then no use moaning later when they managed to get it to Core 4, tough luck really!