Flying around in the no-base-time showed me that I really like to be able to pass the former chokepoints that were guarded by bases. A Corsair raid, that does not lose 1 ship to King's Cross bc the player was not thinking... a simple jump between Dublin and O49 and on my Nomad I could even enter Omicron 74. That felt refreshing.
As much irp sense the chokepoint blocking bases have, I think this phase has shown (at least to me) that they are not good for the gameplay. They therefore should be changed or disallowed (existing bases would need to get a special solution).
