[Malorn]

Right - you were not forced to go to sanc for any reason. You could spawn at a base and fly/drive to the next fight.

If anything hindered the pace of the game it was spawn points, spawn rate, distance between spawn points and battles, and how quickly one could get to and use the vehicle pad. Tweak those if you want to increaes the pace of the game (and you need to tweak those if you want to increase lethality).

Sanctuaries only helped the game. I don't get the sanc-hate.