I remember a line from a Bruce Lee movie, where he said something to the effect that boards don't hit back, when a rival fighter broke a board in front of him with a strike. What if dev bases did hit back? Scripted attacks along the lines of the Heroic Defense attacks. The trigger would be random attacks from the dev bases that you attacked. That would ensure more defensive activity. I don't think it would be wise to allow them to generate conflict points, because of balance issues, but occasional crates? Just thinking out loud. Much more thought needs to be put into this, but this just came to mind as I was reading through other posts.
LS