on TT map for example, the areas that have the uncapturable bases used to have some great fights on them, but now they are pointless to attack other than to pork strats. Keepin a country in the fight that would otherwise be booted out due to a lack of effective defense is as lame as people who think sports should no longer keep score so no one is determined to have lost.
ENY, should be placed on the side that has the fewest bases. Why punish winners? In war, the side that suffers defeat after defeat and loses ground and material to the enemy is not the side that continues to have access to good equipment and supplies, but the direct opposite.