Short version
Allow free travel to any major city without paying any fee.
Of course, traveling FROM cities to anywhere else MUST NOT be free.
Reasons
People are already traveling freely using WvW, but this method just crowds LA for no reason. Also, this contributes in making other major cities even less populated than they already are, because most people just stop in LA for crafting/storage/whatever to save portal loading time even though they like other cities more.
Long version
Let’s say you are in Cursed Shore, you are fed up with running from zombies while grabbing orichalcum, and maybe today doing Plinx for 79 times is enough (just joking, I hate farming like that
). Now you have three ways to go back to Divinity’s Reach, where your storage/crafting/personal story/friends/whatever awaits you:
1. Running all the way back. —> Kill yourself
2. Spend 4+ silver using waypoint. --> Good luck getting rich if you always do this
3. Travel to WvW —> portal to LA --> portal to Divinity’s Reach. —> Three minutes of loading screen (go fetch a drink meanwhile), no gold wasted
Now, I bet 99% of players use the 3rd method. It’s natual, since it’s usually better to watch a loading screens for 2 minutes than spending 4+ silver.
But this “trick” creates certain problems:
- Crowded LA: since the bottleneck of this journey is LA, it is natural that it gets crowded. This may create overflow problems during peak hours, for absolutely no reason. Also, players who may like to craft/store/whatever in other cities, often just stay in LA to avoid another loading screen. Consequently, this also contributes in making the other five major cities even emptier than they aready are… but this is a topic for another time.
- Tedious process: every time I use this trick, I save money, but I feel wasted potential. Why “force” players to do go though this? Either remove this “trick” completely, or make travel to major cities completely free. I suggest the second, of course: waypoint traveling to far away locations is already quite expensive as it is, and doubling it seems a little too harsh.
