Base balance and other such matters

[Hidamari]

You should make it so a base admin can set how long until the shield automatically goes down, or at least keep it up. The shield goes down far too quickly. People could just heavy mortar a base, and it would do 500k damage. After a little while, they can attack again, with ANOTHER 500k damage. It's possible (although unlikely) that they could destroy the base in 1-2 hours, while the base owners could all be sleeping. That's a rough (rough) minimum of 4 heavy mortars an hour. That's 2 million damage. Without a doubt, they would be able to get more attack than that in. 'Oh but what about Weapon platforms?' All the battleship would have to do is go out of range, and return in 1-16 minutes, and attack again.

yes this.

heavy mortar, base takes damage, shield goes up, waits.. shield goes down, heavy mortar, base takes damage, shield goes up, waits.. sheild goes down, heavy mortar, base takes damage, shield goes up, waits.. shield goes down, heavy mortar, base takes damage, sheild goes up, waits.. sheild goes down.. etc etc etc

together with the fact nobody can dock with the station while its being attacked under the proposed measures. making the shield automatically stay up for longer will just make another problem somewhere else, because then you have to wait even longer to be able to land, and if you shorten the time it takes for the shield to go off then somebody can just blow up your station even faster.

there is nothing wrong with the way stations are right now in terms of shield on/off, or docking/undocking.

why should a station you have spend god knows how long making and upkeeping not be able to save you in a pinch? its ludicrous...

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