Only if you remain in the instance I think. You can visit another CZ or I think jumping out & back in again should restart it (worked in beta, not tried in live).
There is a daily limit a single player can have anyway, I've been hopping between CZ POIs.
Yah, i just staid in the CZ waiting for the next round to begin. I didn't look at the hourglass, but I think it could have been 10 mins. Sounds at least intentionaly, as I think FDevs wanted ppl to have time to return to a base, restock, repair and so on. But I think it slows down Combat Gameplay. At least it does for me.
I don't know if it works to jump out and back in again. In solo or a private group it could eventually work or even in open, if everyone leaves the CZ.
Another thing, I tried another CZ (high intensity) and it was a dogfight between two Anacondas. I had to protect the Conda on my Team and helping to destroy the other. The enemy Conda had 12% left and engaged FSD. My team Conda disappeared as well and I fought for nothing - end of round. Maybe i should've destroyed the enemies FSD. But still, it doesnt feel like a high intensity CZ anymore. If I want to have a 1on1 or 1on2 I go and make some bounties or assasination missions… it's more rewarding at this time (including BGS)
The other way around - and at that one I am not sure if its intentionaly - CZ Begins and 7 Enemy ships appear but none of my Team. Enemy ships are mostly Elite ranked and opening fire at once, just listening to a radio chat telling me i have to destroy Spec ops command… yeah 1vs7. But that one was before the hotfix patch.
As long as it remains that way, i wont do CZ. Or at least not that much i did before.
*shrug* I got plenty other things to do ingame which are more fun now. But still, I am missing the Stellar Wars skirmish Feeling, dropping in a CZ, see a load of laser- rocket- blasterfire and ships chasing each other, building flocks of devastating firepower and getting in the middle of it trying to destroy as much enemies as I can before I have to leave to get a quick repair and handing in combat bonds just to turn around as fast as I can to join the battle again…
Greetings earthlings
good night, good fight