I bought the game yesterday, and I absolutely love it.

However, I worry about the life of my cardboard-standees.

Learning the hard way, that the plastic bases shred the cardboard of the standee, I took a more cautious approach, but the bases are hard on the standees, and having to take them out and put them back in, when applaying the rings, makes me worry, that the standees wont last very long.

Anyone have some advice for this?

There is no real reason you cant just put your figure on top of the ring rather than put the ring on the base. Heck you could halo the stand.

You can push the stand into the ring and it clicks into place and then clicks out when you pull it off. Of course, this just then slowly destroys the ring instead but it does a lot less damage than the stand and leader standee.