I like the idea of having advanced crafting tables in player bases. Or maybe be able to craft a super advanced tool kit or something that gives you ability to use an advanced work bench at an ordinary one.
People complain that they keep getting murdered or whatever, but the problem is, everyone, more or less, is already in a large, well known group, and a lot of people won't accept you if your gear is crap or whatever, so you go to AWB, on your own, with all that gear to build, then get murdered, again, can't make the gear, lose items needed to make it etc and it just keeps repeating.
Everyone just hoards all their good gear anyway so It wouldn't be too much of an issue if AWBs were easier to access. you'd still need to get the materials. it's not like accessing an AWB would immediately give you the good stuff, you'd still have to work at it.