How about taking the flag from your base onto the flag stand somewhere else to the map instead of standing around it and having a timer that goes down for capturing? Much more difficult and more of a target when the enemy sees you walking from your base with a flag. You're priority number one then. 
And then it requires waiting for the flag to respawn, which means having to go back to base to get another one, which can screw up your farming. So it's riskier that way than just moving to a point and staying there i'd think. Though, riskier isnt' always good for gameplay, grnated.
But yeah how it is now, someone said if you're alone it takes about 1 minute of standing around a flag point to capture it.
