Well, we all know that bases hardly ever stand a chance when it gets locked by what turns out to be a huge battle-group and from what I hear, they haven't had an update since they first came out way back two or three years ago while players themselves have gotten far stronger and even surpassed the strength of bases. So I propose a few changes at least to the higher level bases, regarding both difficulty, and base rewards.
Level 5s and below:
~ Level 3 bases now raidable, they yield a "Small base crate": 60% chance for a "Supply Cache" (When opened it yields 1000 mixed research and mining points), 30% chance for 20 CTp, and 10% chance for 40 CTP. No other changes. Reason for this is to introduce some features earlier, hopefully keeping the interest of new players in longer.
For those of you that say "Make it harder for those at the top and you'll doom everyone else", your argument is invalid as all bases that are below level 5 remain the same difficulty wise.
Level 6:
~Reduce the damage cap to 480 (down from 600), otherwise no changes.
~As it is level 6s seem to be locked and disabled the most as they have a significantly higher damage caps compared to a 5 (therefore much easier to disable), better base rewards over a 5 again making them a more tempting target, and less shielding and attack compared to a 7 despite an identical damage cap and all the same raid drops, again making them preferred bases to lock if your only concern is badges and raids, as a result people in level 6s seem to get demoralized (I know I did) and feel outclassed so they migrate to the level 7 or 8 bases. Hopefully this change will help them out some.
Level 7:
~ Damage cap remains at 600.
~Module limit increased to 14 turrets, 14 shield generators, 14 platings, and 14 defenses.
~Very Massive base crate changed: 60% chance to drop an Enumeration Crystal, 30% chance to drop an Abysmal Rift Trap, 10% chance to drop an "Reactive-AI Core"; (When used on your base it permanently increases defense by 20).
Level 8:
~ Damage cap increased to 740.
~ Module limit increased to 16 turrets, 16 shield generators, 16 platings, and 16 defenses.
~ Can now have up to 5 of each type of production structures (up from 4).
~ Base raids bring in a "Colossal Base Crate": 60% chance to drop an Enumeration Crystal, 30% chance to drop a Reactive-AI Core, 10% chance to drop a "Vault Fortress" (Planet structure, size 4, +8000 attack, +2000 artifact, mining, and research storage, can be extracted, limit 1 per planet).
Level 9:
~ Damage cap 860.
~ Module limit 18 turrets, 18 shield generators, 18 platings, and 18 defenses.
~ Can have up to 6 of each type of production structures.
~ Base raids bring in a "Mega Colossal Base Crate": 60% chance to drop a Reactive-AI Core, 30% chance to drop a Vault Fortress, 10% chance to drop an "Enhanced Enumeration Crystal" (improves a planet's artifact production by 5, up to 20x MegaRich).
-Sha'Din Schematics: Alter the function of this arti when used on a base the first time it simply unlocks the base design where it will work like any other base skin, you can freely switch to it in the change base details section. When used again it does not force the base into using the base design but still permanently increases attack by 50. Let's face it, people are getting tired of seeing every high level base look like a cookie cutter base these days, so with this change it wont be frequently forced into looking like the Sha'din HyperPort.
Other similar arties that could be introduced that work the same way include; Renegar Schematics, Stalar Schematics, and Dark Schematics to unlock the Renegar Lazuli Station skin, the Stalar Command Center's and the Dark Command Nexus' skin respectively, drop rates for these would be about 5% when their respective bosses are disabled.
-Continuum Parser; From what I hear, people hate getting these in their raids because you can only use 4 on your ship and after that they're a waste of a base raid. So I suggest that they be moved to the battle market, costing 42 Silver badges each, and no longer appear in base raids, the artifact is otherwise unchanged.
-Feeder Legions: Feeders are very demoralizing for those of us on the lower end of the food chain.
My proposition is to limit the number of base battles that a legion can take part in within a 24 hour time frame to be limited to the intended 3.
This includes both bases that the legion locked on their own, and those that were shared to them by their battle pact partners.
-Krionite Minefield: For the one ability that requires the most to be unlocked, it sure is worthless to use aside from letting the legion know that someone has hit the base (and who), in its current form, its not stopping anyone, so I propose this change; reduce the chance of setting off to 20% per hit, change the damage formula so it depletes your shields and deals 10% of your hull, rather than for the ability to disappear once its set off, it instead becomes an effect on the base that lasts for an hour that has a chance to set off subsequent mines each time you hit it. Making this a more viable ability to really boost the amount of damage your base can dish out for that hour. AP cost increased to 3.
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10% something I don't see, and alot of base buffing going on here... Kinda neat but realisticly this means a leagion will get say 50 people 30x20=600 defense 15 people will get Valut and 5 people get the mystery prize, I am not sure if 600 defense is worth trying to tackel a level 9 base considering it will not give you anything really in return.