Guild Wars 2

My guild and I have discussed this for a while, and I feel like not only will it benefit ANet’s need for gold sinks, but will also benefit a more consolidated community effort in WVW to upgrade structures.

Instead of buying an upgrade as a single person (IE Bob spends 1g to add a waypoint to stonemist)

There should be a collective pool of money for upgrading that component of the structure.

Bob queue’s up “Waypoint Addition”
There now becomes a “Donate” button to toss however much money you would like into the pool of gold. You are free to donate as much or as little as you want, and anything extra donated (past the amount needed) will just be refunded. (Incase 2 people donate 5g or something at the same time)

Now this is where the community effort comes into play, you can have 100’s of people donate small amounts to upgrade your structure. Because of this we are able to increase the cost of the defenses by atleast a tenfold degree.

Instead of a waypoint costing ~1g, a waypoint could now cost 10g because 50 people could donate instead of 1 person buying the upgrade straight out.

Upgrades need to be extremely beneficial to holding a structure, a fully upgraded castle should require a very organized group of people to take it over, not just a 75 person zerg with 2 rams.

TLDR —-—
Increase amount of upgrade costs.
Allow people to donate instead of purchasing an upgrade outright.
Better Gold Sink + Better Community Effort.