People might get angry with me for this one but... oh well.

Why are sleepers not affected by the system effect? If you take a system and use the advantages, you should also deal with the fact the sleepers have these advantages too.

^this.
also would making drugs contractable be so bad?
every time i need to move a dread between chars i need to fly to whatever arse end LS **** hole i left it in, gets old.

PS: yeah i know it's not a WH issue

I am not advocating the OP position, however, the statement that the defender is in general advantaged is not correct either. When thinking back through the history of system assaults which I have been involved with I can not think of a single one where the defender had the advantage. The nature of New Eden is that the attacker withholds pressing forward with the operation until he believes that he has not just a superior position but a vastly superior one.

I do think that the difficulty of getting forces back in contributes to the unwillingness to fly ships that are already likely lost. As such when given the choice of logging valuables off or of fighting most pick logging their stuff out. Allowing the defenders or attackers re - entry via a clone jump might not be the best answer but that inability is central to why invasions are the way they are. Perhaps running the other side out of ships would be more interesting than the current lack of engagements. Instead of dismissing it based on the idea that it eliminates the current tactic of victory via the other side not having any pilots, perhaps we should look at the bigger picture of what would be more interesting gameplay.