Unfortunately this would probably have the opposite effect then what was originally intended. The bigger legions are the ones disabling smaller legions bases really easily. If this was implemented, it wouldn't really affect them disabling smaller bases, due to the fact that they can easily disable the defenders. Unfortunately the same doesn't hold true on the other side. It would make it nigh impossible to disable bigger legions bases at all.

Thats why i suggest some kind of rank cap on battles eg:

battle rank cap say = 1000 for defenders
defending legion has 2x r150,2x r110,2x r95,2x r100,2x r45

cap = 1500 for attackers as they have a base to deal with as well.
Attacking legion has 2x r200, 2x r175, 2x r150, 2x125 x 2x r100

This would provide another line of defense for younger legions, if for no other reason than legion pride. (perhaps there could be badges for defenders?)

Plus it would make sense. Surely any legion would defend its base if it was being attacked? When have you ever seen the death star floating around by itself?

If this is too complicated maybe the defending legion could just be alerted to which players are attacking/ attacked their base? then at least some retribution could be meeted out.

an easy (and boring) way out would be to use legion avarage rank to match base battles?

Just throwing ideas out there! please add/ sugest changes

no. bases can be very hard to take down, especially when they get to level 4-5. Now imagine their 15k defense augmented by 40-50 legion members, who each sport about 1-2k defense. No. Just no.

So a powerful attacking legion with good team tactics should be warded off by a little legion because they have spirit? Bases have the same type structures regardless of rank. They also have ability points. Learn to use them. If your legion isn't willing to actually improve the BASE or is too... tactically challenged... to use your abilities well, don't blame the big guys because its not our fault. As it stands now, big and powerful crunches little and weak. That's realism. When you start adding things to the game to give an advantage to a particular sub-set of the player base, you start to have problems. By now most of the players in the big legions have all their Tetras and Plexi (or nearly so) so you should start seeing a slight drop in the "gang raping" of small bases. When Dan adds the promised "extra incentives" for attacking bigger bases, there should be a shift in that direction (depending on the quality of the incentives).

So a powerful attacking legion with good team tactics should be warded off by a little legion because they have spirit? Bases have the same type structures regardless of rank. They also have ability points. Learn to use them. If your legion isn't willing to actually improve the BASE or is too... tactically challenged... to use your abilities well, don't blame the big guys because its not our fault. As it stands now, big and powerful crunches little and weak. That's realism. When you start adding things to the game to give an advantage to a particular sub-set of the player base, you start to have problems. By now most of the players in the big legions have all their Tetras and Plexi (or nearly so) so you should start seeing a slight drop in the "gang raping" of small bases. When Dan adds the promised "extra incentives" for attacking bigger bases, there should be a shift in that direction (depending on the quality of the incentives).

Its not good tactics.. its good cash flow.

No thats not what I'm saying. Every legion should have the option to defend its base, high or low rank. This is not giving an 'advantage to a particular subset of players'.

The point stands that some base battles are chronically mismatched, this doesnt happen with the battle tab, and with planets players at least have the option of getting their legions help to defend - these situations are even.

Our base (lvl 4 and by no means ill equipped for our ranks) was disabled in 2 minutes yesterday, no one was active at the exact moment it took place so no ability points could be used. Bad luck i guess, but if the battle was more evenly matched with a similar ranked legion, there would have at least been a fight, so there is no need for vieled insults and patronising remarks.

I think the above posts show quite well the attitude towards base battles that higher rank legions have - Level 5 and above bases are too tough to crack, so just wait till a lvl 4 or below shows up and then farm them for badges.

I think the concept of base defenders would be a great addition to the game in whatever way it was implemented, as long as it keeps an even playing field. I'm sure other more experienced players could suggest better methods for it?

The point I was getting at is that you wouldn't be able to have people target the defenders, because they would get disabled too easily, thus making the whole thing moot really. Also, base stats are too high to just have your ships stats added to the base's stats. Fantastic idea hit me while typing. Maybe for each defender it increases the base's stats by a small %, that way it can benefit all legions equally without making it too much more difficult to disable the high level bases. You also still wouldn't be able to disable the defenders, because they would be docked inside the base. It would be like the captains and their crew are inside the base operating its defensive systems, instead of letting the computer handle it.