My idea on how WvWvW could have been…
All players can play on all servers and move to any server for free.
Before entering WvWvW or have an NPC at lions arch, you have to sign up for a master guild. The master guilds are made up by Anet. (Crystal Desert, Blackgate, Darkhaven, etc.) The guilds are like how the servers are now. Your master guild gets bonuses and extra stuff if they are winning in WvWvW. Each master guild gets rankings. (Rank1, Rank2, Rank3, etc.) You can switch your master guild for a fee. The higher the ranking the more gold it cost to switch. So rank1 master guild will cost 200 gold and the master guild on the bottom cost 1g to switch.
Who fights who? There are many ways this can be done. One example, is a blocking system. Block 1 is composed of rank 1,2,3 master guilds. Block 2 is composed of rank 4,5,6. Block 3 is composed of rank 7,8,9 and so on. Rank 1 always fights rank2 and 3. Rank 2 always fights rank 1 and 3. Rank 3 always fights rank 1 and 2. After the two week period (or any time period) there is a WvWvW reset and rank 3 rotate with rank 4. Making rank 3 downgrade to rank 4 and making rank 4 upgrade to rank 3. This continues on with all other rankings.
So rank 3-4, 6-7, 9-10, 12-13 and so on keep rotating every two weeks.
1,2,3
4,5,6
7,8,9
10,11,12
Etc..
I think this would make the WvWvW equal in a sense that each master guild will only fight other Master guild of the same level. And it can make master guild’s strive for the 1,4,7,10 rankings for a chance to improve their master guilds status. It would also give the game title “Guild Wars” more meaning if we had to choose a master guild over a server.
There are many different ways this could be done.