Binski, let me inform of something, this coming straight from basically the person in charge of current Bretonian affairs (aka the PoB House, as it used to be more commonly known and largely still is due to the number of bases there and, to my knowledge, the number of sieges that have occured)
PoB sieges do not actually provide anything beneficial to either side. Sure, short-term, you'll get those fancy hours of activity (that can you get anyways simply through flying about and interacting with the rest of the game world), some PvP action (that you can get anyway from the usual raids) and a LOT of drama, the latter taking a massive toll on everyone's willingness to log. But, long-term, the entire region becomes absolutely empty. Look at Bretonia. I can boast about the lawfuls being all epic and great... but we have nobody to log against. Everyone left because of sieges (among a few other things too, to be completely fair). That became the only activity until late into 2021, after which the region slowly started to fizzle out. This is a trend not only there, but in the Sigmas too, along with a few other regions like the Taus and, going back a bit more, Liberty itself. The constant "new player joins -> builds a base -> X group arrives to siege -> newbie gets help to defend -> PoB dies anyway because of wacky siege mechanics -> new player leaves" does no good. Your proposal is that, but on a much greater level, and not involving newbies, but older players, too. The last thing we need right now is to shove aside the remainder of the playerbase.
Now that the "pros", if one may call them such, have been largely elaborated, let me get to the cons.
First, obviously, the drama. You will never ever see as much drama in this community anywhere else save for these sieges. There's so much hate spewed around that it's at an unfathomable level even to this day. That aside, we're in the unfortunate position of having to deal with a remaining portion of the community being hellbent on just safekeeping certain assets around even if they receive absolutely no story focus at all. Thusly, if you even propose such sieges, the idea will be shot down by most people as it does not in fact provide much interesting gameplay to play on (you select the siege ship account, log in, move to the base, hold right click and then alt tab for the next few hours while playing something else), not to mention the fact it just gives nothing beyond another asset to dock on. If we want to go that way, you can just submit a dev plan and earn your epically good solar without any drama.
Secondly, the sieges themselves. This does tie into the drama part but just slightly. In any siege, you'll have either a group that's made up of """aces""" or one that doesn't have any knowledge as to what a sleep schedule actually means, (prime example being that O-3 siege a few months back when Corsairs killed a station at 5 am because everyone was either asleep or packing for work) those two "sides" working to push the other one, even if not on purpose, to literally watch the playerlist 24/7. It's horrible to deal with. It's tiring. It's frustraing. I've seen about 10 such sieges happen and most of the time you're just left hopeless there watching the playerlist on your own while there's 10 hostile caps casually strolling up to the PoB. It's something nobody should be forced to deal with just so they have this supposed bit of fun.
Thirdly, the PvP aspect. Often the most mentioned one, it's also the very same thing that made, in just the 2 years I've been around, roughly 20 to 30 people outright stop playing because they don't have anything else to do and defending their base was a waste of time. It's, just like the second point, a very tiring situation. You don't get to have too much fun, either. 90% of the cases it'll be either the defending side or the sieging side having three or four times the numbers than the other one and it'll be a pre-decided fight. It's not the way to go about PoB siege events.
Fourthly, and the last point, this idea will not in fact bring about activity. The server (generally speaking) needs not more sieges that'll make even MORE people quit, but other types of events. We still haven't got ANYTHING in Omicron Minor, despite a story arc being started there, nothing in Kappa, nothing in Theta, and more importantly, nothing in Vespucci. You won't actually make people log to alt tab and hold down the right mouse button for 10 hours a day, but through giving them a trade event, a combat event, hell, even hybrid events.
