A question to all of you complaining about not being able to dock while a shield is up - and do forgive me I haven't used the player base feature.
If you leave an admin ship docked - you're free to log into said ship and turn the shield off from what I am gathering. I saw one of you say your base had six admins; to me that means the window where one of your faction members is locked out should be very very small. Unless all six of you are in one time zone and that isn't the development team's fault.