yes there is my company had maintained a base for 4 weeks now because we have build around 15 massive towers with cannons all around behinde wall honeycombs we have puckles and swivels all over our base/harbour we have ships designed to shit and defend our other ships (agressive cannons and full crew price decrease,crew, and anti sinking with repair npcs to outheal damage) its not hard just play smarter player better dont be stupid when planning a base make a proper dock harbour with pillars and proper parking cover the bottom of it with ceilings so people can swim easy under its not hard and yes we have defended this base we have fought 3 galleons off and a full alliance assault off in the officail pvp server
