With the massive disparity in numbers manifesting primarily due to free xfers resulting in population inequality it might be time to give the “outnumbered” buff actual teeth.
For example:
- Have the buff provide a stat bonus to players
- Have the buff make siege hit harder
- Have the buff make walls stronger
- Have the buff act as a score multiplier
- The buff scales in real-time with inequality (use your anecdotal data to figure out a formula)
You have to give players a chance or they will leave servers before the change to xfer making things permanently bad and killing WvW on any particular server.
Conversely, if this is not inline with WvW philosophy please state that clearly so we can all know that everyone should just xfer now to the biggest baddest zerg and be done with all the suggestions.