Regarding the Ruling 14 on the Q&A blog, does this mean now that the robot does NOT have to leave the base entirely before doing anything?  I am thinking specifically about the storm wheel mission.  Here is what it says:

If you touch your robot while the only part of it in Base is the end of some long [whatever] that was left there like the end of a dog's leash for the obvious purpose of avoiding a touch penalty, you'll still get the penalty. I don't want to go back to ruling that the robot must leave base before it can do anything, so instead you get this post.