Seriously. First, ask yourself these questions:
1) What do I risk from raiding?
2) What can I gain from raiding?
3) What would it cost me to raid?
4) Why wouldn't I raid?

Answers:
1) Nothing
2) Nice artifacts and CTP
3) My energy that I attacked with
4) No reason.

The way it works now, even if you use 5000 energy to help disable, and you're asleep while it's finished off, you've wasted all that energy on badges. Make the raids auto-raid, or give us 24 hours to press the raid button.

-1 this would mean fewer base locks per day since each base would have to last longer.

A hardcore gamer can easily find a way around this...

I don't think he's suggesting the Base Combat timer be extended to 24hr (re-extended really, because that's what it was originally). He's suggesting extending the access to a disabled base for Raid purposes only.

it'd be better just to do an automatic random roll for everyone, tell everyone their chance of success and what they actually rolled and the type of crate that was dropped into their inventory

I'd like to see auto-raid. I've missed out on raids many times even where i've put insignificant energy into bases. When the base timer runs out, the raid should take place automagically for all players that haven't manually done it.

Perhaps the auto system could have a reduced success/high value reward chance to encourage players to do it manually (And reward them for doing so), but this way no one loses out on what they rightly deserve.