The problem could be a player disconnecting during a firefight due to a game crash or connection lost. Imagine being defending your base from raiders and trying to connect back again asap. The game would put you in a different place, further away, so you could go back to your base and kill those raiders from behind. Sadly I think we have to deal with the possibility of a player reconnecting in front or behind us at any moment. We have to be aware all the time of our surroundings.

@ParanoiaLP You make a good point for my suggestion not being a perfect solution. Your example shows, that although unlikely, a player might crash with a certain knowledge and then spawn in a different location, giving them a tactical advantage.

I want to argue though, that my solution is still better than the way the game is functioning in this regard at the moment. While it's true that you could even purposefully teleport out of your base, simply by logging off, people raiding bases could also be surprised by third parties, coming to check out the noise. It is still a more "natural" encounter, to have someone creep up behind you, where this

We have to be aware all the time of our surroundings.

is actually a fair point, than having people literally appear, without any chance on your part to prepare for it.

What would make my solution even better in my opinion, is to increase the log-off time to 2 minutes like it used to be, to prevent combat logging and also forbidding bases in cities. That way we would not have these base building parts clipping through the building geometry, which is both ugly and unimmersive, but also bases would need to be built out and about, as was teased in early screenshots/teasers of the feature. People building forts and such.

I do realise though, that the two things I mentioned are seperate suggestions and although I believe they would compliment this one tremendously, my suggestion stands as is, despite it not being perfect. It's still better.