Guild Wars 2

As an incentive for defending attach some number of points X to a successful defense event in addition to the regular tick you get from owning that structure.

I forget, but did ANet fix the “thief tapping door to contest way point” issue? If not there’d have to be some threshold/trigger, so a few attackers couldn’t trigger the defense event. This is to prevent people from running toons on the opposite server solely to trigger defense events.

Ideally, this X would scale proportional to the number of attackers. Fewer attackers would mean the defenders would get less of a bonus for defending, but the chances for success would also be lower. Don’t use fixed cut-offs, or tiers though, so the last attacker to arrive who puts you into the next defense bonus tier doesn’t get yelled at to f***-off.

+1. This idea is actually a really good one if ANet manages to implement it successfully. It would give lower population servers a fighting chance, as defending a tower/keep is much easier than taking one and then praying you can hold it until the tick goes off and gives you the points.

And I think a successful defense should basically be if the enemy throws down a ram and hits the gate a few times. Then it should trigger. Otherwise it would be too easy to abuse by trolls are jerks.

Good suggestion, shame it will probably be ignored :/