I will file this one in the will never happen category but here goes anyway.
What if in addition to the active nodes there was a list of people “targeting you” which could mean they have you in one of their nodes or are actively attacking you. Then give the option to take someone from the list and put them on one of your nodes. Set it up so people who are targeting you because you attacked them (and have a retaliation lined up) cannot be added to a node, we don’t need any abuses where you target the same person over and over.
-At the top end this would give the elite a much easier route to find and target each other instead of burning thousands of iso.
-It would give a face to the zombie horde, and actually let people make informed risk/reward decisions for when to shield based on how angry the list looks at any point in time.
-Would let people play with the meta, and see “safe” times to play and see when activity picks up but with advance warning so you can actually react to it instead of merely try to regain your losses.