Outmanned
It doesn’t change the fact that you’re outnumbered, it just gives you incentive to keep on fighting, as you get better rewards. It’s just a way to make sure WvW worlds never dry up of players – without that incentive, you wouldn’t get a snow-ball effect of players.
Oh my bad. Never mind trying to keep the game as balanced as possible because that would just make too much sense. I might be getting my teeth kicked as a result of being out numbered, but hey, at least I’m getting 33% more karma…much better.
And i like to point out that you won’t get either karma, experience and any sort of item, because you know our server is outmanned, all u can do is be drain off by the repair guy.
Outmanned doesn’t necessarily mean that the whole enemy team will be in one huge zerg. If you come in with a good-sized group (10-20) you can deal a great amount of damage, or at the very least, hold a position indefinitely, getting all the nice drops from incoming scattered forces and karma from defending the point.
Even if the enemies are in one huge zerg, you can just outmaneuver them with a bit of tactical thinking and good communication. You could even fool them at going to the wrong place entirely, by sending a few guys to attack a supply camp on one side of the map and then strike at a tower/keep on the other side of the map within the next 5 minutes.
Over time, more and more people naturally join WvW (usually it takes about an hour, in Ehmry Bay at least) and the forces become more or less balanced.