TBH, Backhacking is fun sometimes. I get out of the meat grinder for a while and get to concentrate on fighting small organized recovery teams. Plus, for now at least, I don't lag to 5 FPS when I'm away from the front.
Hack timers are fine IMHO, it's the reencryption timers that are too low. The highest I've seen is like 5 min? Some last just 1 min. Say a backhacker takes a base, or a recovery team resecures it, that base should stay the faction color for 30 minutes allowing the back hacking empires to have time to either send a force (by spawning there) to take the next hex or for the dominant empire to ignore it for that time knowing it is secure, for now.
This is how you develop a real 2nd front line.
Backhacking a big facility alone or with only 1 other person is already almost impossible because of the distances to the other capture points and the speed of the controlling empire's timer. Don't put an arbitrary number of people required to hack it, just adjust the timers for balance. Then the backhackers will need to coordinate.... Ready, set, capture!
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