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What you potentially lose is faction activity. People fear for jumphole blockers and the likes now having more time to build. Imagine if the Leeds - Magellan or Leeds - New London holes were blocked? GG GRN activity. Nobody wants to "fight" invincible static objects.
How about, with these new PoB rules, we add one that forbids building within 10K of an existing "object", be it a station, gate or jumphole? Those things do nothing but remove incentive to log on.
If attackers are asked to act responsibly, at least ask the same of base builders.
Edit: As a force of habit I tend to shoot up the shields of any base that shoots at me. Do I have to go post on the forums for each base I do that to? What if a hostile force uses it as cover?