The following points are coloured by my own opinions and experience as a high-level character in a mid-size, mid-level, decidedly non-uber organization that still has the cheek to want to have fun with towers.
Here are the observations:
1. Battles are fun! Very fun! But only when you can participate in them somehow. It feels good to be doing something with a lot of other players, from many organizations. Win or lose, that's cool.
2. Bases of QL 150 and under are too weak. Way too weak. The battles to hold these bases are often over before they can start. This is kind of silly, your base should be pretty robust and able to buy you enough time to try and rescue the controller. That's the point of having all the other towers, right?
3. A six-hour window of vulnerability to attack for bases is just too long a time.
4. Attacking is mostly fun and easy. Defending is mostly boring and annoying.
And the suggestions:
1. Implement an alliance system with some good features to it. The coolest thing about NW, so far, has been working together with other orgs. Give us ways to enhance that
2. Beef up defenses of ql 201- bases, or else implement a system whereby the Controller can't even be damaged until all the turrets and guardians around it are destroyed.
3. Make the Org. Towers and All Towers channels work for people besides the leaders. It really helps to know when our base is under attack without having to have someone at the towers 'camping' them for hours at a time to keep watch.
4. Four hours of vulnerability would have been plenty, at least for bases under QL 201. It would give people who own a base a chance to sleep and do stuff other than play AO, at least
5. Give people that the towers there would fire on, according to the gas %, who are entering a LC area only 15 seconds of grace, and when they leave the area give them 15 minutes of disgrace. Or else PvP-flag those people for 30 minutes or something. But please stop the gas-camping attackers; once an attack starts you shouldn't be able to pull back to safety just by hopping over an invisible line