Player Owned Bases

[Thyrzul]

The primary imbalance I see between owners and besiegers is the requirement of continuous maintenance of a base even when it's not besieged. The resulting asymmetry can greatly vary the difference in required cost and effort investment on each side of a siege on a case by case basis and the overall cumulated costs slowly but steadily increase over time for the owners.

Possible solution: Remove wear & tear damage.
Possible problem arising from that solution: abandoned bases remain.

Yeah, well, someone sometime put some effort into creating that base, even if later abandoned it. Then it either causes enough problems for someone else to similarly put effort into its removal, or not.
Or if it remains a constant extra but unnecessary strain on server load: apply a timer of N days, after which W&T is reinstated at a higher rate, the timer resettable through logging in to a base.

Thoughts?

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