I would like to see outposts have some meaning
Rather than docking rights, I would like to see the facility cost altered according to relations, plus a weekly rent required for being able to access corporate hangars, and perhaps a fee for docking rights too. Some ideas...
Facility fees
If a corporation owns an outpost they can opt to provide discounts or an additional premium to use the facilities. Each discount is optional and selected by the owning corp individually. The Syndicate would get the usual 50% of the normal price, and the discount/premium is taken from/added to the owning corp's share.
Green corps - Up to 50% discount on total facility fees
Blue corps - Up to 25% discount on total facility fees
Neutral corps - no discount or premium can be set
Yellow corps - Up to 25% premium on total facility fees
Red corps - Up to 50% premium on total facility fees
Corp storage rent
This is not the fee for creating corp storage, but an ongoing maintenance fee.
This is an option that could be set by the owning corp, but with the option to reduce the rent to 0%, 25%, 50% or 100% for each colour of standing. Thus they could choose just to give free storage to green and blue corps, or free storage to all corps regardless of colour, or just set a fee for yellow and red corps.
Rates (example amounts only):
Level 1 - 500k NIC per week
Level 2 - 1m NIC per week
Level 3 - 5m NIC per week
Level 4 - 10m NIC per week
The owning corp would receive 100% of the revenue from corp storage rent.
If a corp already owns hangars in an outpost controlled by an enemy, they can choose to pay the fee, and thus have access to those hangars for 1 week after the fee is paid. If they don't pay, they can't access the hangars.
Docking rights
A corp can choose to set docking rights exactly the same way as it would for corp hangar access.
Rates (example numbers only):
<10 agents in corp - 500k NIC per week
10-50 agents in corp - 1m NIC per week
50-100 agents in corp - 5m NIC per week
100+ agents in corp - 10m NIC per week
The fee is the same regardless of how many agents actually dock up or use the outpost. Again, a corp would choose to set this as an option for their outpost, and then have the option to choose a 100%, 50%, 25% or 0% discount for each colour of standing.
The owning corp would receive 100% of the revenue from docking rights.
The amounts are just examples, I don't know what would really work, but this gives a way to penalise corps who lose intrusions, and an element of risk to losing them beyond e-peen, but at the same time doesnt cripple the game for new corps trying to move from alpha to beta.
"...playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles."
Bernard Suits, 1978