Dan,

Right now there is no ships log notificaion of a base lock. If no one had been on at the time the base lock happened we might not have known about it. There should be a red box that pops up in your ships log notifying of a lock.

there is a notification in the gl game chat in bold red letters

it's not bold red letters.. just regular red letters (i'm staring at a screenshot my gf made)... and if a few people chat enough, that could move out of the chatbox and nobody new that logs on will know about it until someone clicks on the legion or someone says something

neither the lock nor the disable appear in the newsfeed (ship's log)

thatmeans people need to play and pay more attention I do

Jim,

That's dandy you don't find the current setup problematic. But other people might be like myself and want notification that shows up in the ship log. Heck I'd also like either a disable of our base or a base we're targeting to show in my ship log as well. that way I don't have to go further than my main screen to know what is going on.

Well if that was the case, then why not have EVERYTHING be on the chat? How about when your planet is taken over, it goes on the chat, and while you are watching a youtube video waiting for your energy to fill, or outside doing something related to real life, the message will be pushed off the chat and everyone will say "SUCKS FOR YOU YOU SHOULD HAVE STARED AT THE CHAT LIKE ITS YOUR ONLY JOB IN THE WORLD"! I'm pretty sure I don't need to explain what I am hinting at here.

sounds like a few rpgs i've played