@Camate, both systems suck.
I'd prefer #1 simply because it makes WoE a unique battlefield.
The other option turns it into, not only the SAME THING we have everywhere else in the game, but it also makes it extremely limited access so that people would do it even less than they do now.

So, yes, I'd prefer open-access. I'd love if you found an anti-leeching method, though. [Not that I have had this issue myself.]
Other than the extreme blandness of the second option, making it a whole real life day to re-enter makes it a terrible system.