It would be a dramatic change, but I honestly feel it would make the game more fun for more people.
Make WvW participation for the match based on your guild (or your individual character if you so choose) rather than your server. Your guild would be randomly placed in a map set at the beginning of the match (or when the first member enters PvP that week) rather than into one based on your server. That would then be your battleground (set of 4 maps) for the week.
This would eliminate/balance elements like night capping or crazy imbalances in population and make it easier to eliminate queues for WvW. It would also “future proof” WvW on servers where populations may eventually diminish too much.
I know it is a radical suggestion and is counter to the concept of “server pride” but I think it would be a better solution and create a strong global community of players rather than divide them based solely on server selection (which was a random choice for most players).
Just a thought. I do realize there would be some negative reaction to this. Not even sure if the technology exists in the system to make something like this work.
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