[pooper200000]

I just wanted to throw this in. There are only two ways I can think of to stop base laming, both of which will kill Iricia.
The first way to stop base laming is too get rid of bikes and disable jetpacks as well as fixing the storm rider base. That will make it harder to get to other bases to base lame and will prevent the weaker team (Storm Riders) from being killed. Sweep fleet has better organization and defenses which is why ultimately, unless many skilled players come to Storm's defense, sweep always wins.

The second way to fix base laming is to kill Irica. There are a few choice ways to do this. The first of which is just to add ridiculously over powered turrets that have an extremely long range. This would make fighting at bases impossible and would make Iricia no longer be fun. Then base laming couldn't even be an issue because Iricia would lack the players to be played.
Another way to kill and fix Iricia would be to just add more walls going across Iricia so you can't ride a bike even halfway across the map. Then when forced with the option of walking or just going to spar, most skilled players will go to spar.

The problems with Iricia really are fundamental. The map is poorly organized and while the newer version has built upon this awful organization, it was already a problem before hand. I think it was Crono who said this, but he was right. Iricia is the best place to fight because you can go straight to the enemies base and you don't have any trees in the way.

One way to try to fix Iricia would be to create several GMAP's and have them each switch out every round. After a week the players could choose which map they liked best and it could be used. Choices could be: Oldest version of Iricia, Raven's first version, Raven's second version, some alternative to the other three that could be thrown together by debug workers.

"If you can't fix it, make a new map"
I guess that is what I have to go with. Maybe a great new map with superior oragnization could be added to replace a map like CTF (CTF could be made an events planet)

I think the best alternative is to create a new map that will be extremely well balanced. We can always introduce a new map at the same time as some hopefully "map saving" changes for Iricia. Then it will be up to the players to choose if they like the new map or Iricia.