I was a big advocate of disbursing the central strats, posting my thoughts on the matter on several occasions. What had been lost in centralizing the strats was diversity and spreading the fights across the map. With the central strats you were no longer able to use attack aircraft or GV's to attack them. There were fewer viable targets for rocket use, both from PT boats and Skd's. Bombers, unless willing to spend hours trying to get to the central strats had no targets other than fields. And the fights to defend these outposts had evaporated, concentrating even more people into the games hordes. I still believe in these and other ideas I posted on de-centralization.
That said the implementation of de-centralization was far from what I'd expected. Rather than a return to the old zone strat system with one of each type of strat supplying a select number of bases and multiple zones located throughout the map, thus multiples of each type of strat, we wound up with one of each type supplying the entire country and often located in indefensible positions.
I've also come to the realization that the large central strat complexes did serve a purpose for those interested in large bomber missions.
At this point I believe the best solution would be a combination of the old zone strat system combined with the large central strats, each supplying 50% to the respective zones. Thus, if the central fuel is down to 60% countrywide supply is at 80% (60% x 50% + 100% x 50% = 80%). If a zone fuel factory is then taken down to 50% then that zone's fuel supply is reduced to 55% (60% x 50% + 50% x 50% = 55%). I could even see the central strats supplying slightly more, say 60% of total supply with zone strats supplying the rest. I'd also make the central strats heavily defended by puffy ack with zone strats left as they are.
This would allow for more variety of fighting throughout the arena while bringing back the need for larger, more organized bomber raids and introducing a more complex strategic element to gameplay. At the same time I would not reintroduce the "mobile strats" we saw in the prior implementation of the central strat system.