The current system of siege requires players to either buy or earn siege by buying it and does not reward them with very strong incentives to place them. While being able to hold a keep or take a tower are good in encouraging siege placement, oftentimes it comes down to a very small number of players who are actually placing siege strategically which will make the difference.
Take for example the commander who spends 15 gold buying arrowcarts or ballistas and siegecaps the map with superior versions of them only to have them despawn overnight and only be useful the the 30 minutes the keep they placed it at is being attacked. Another example would be the dedicated guild who spends ten gold making golems only to have to port them back to save them for later and not recieve credit for taking a keep beacuse they took responsibility to save the golems for future use.
It doesn’t make sense that people who take over siege get more rewards than the commander who places them because the commander took initative for a counterpush and wasn’t able to tag as much loot as the guy sitting safely on an arrow cart.
TL;DR placing siege could be more rewarding to players if placed well. Maybe give them a lootbag for every 4 kills that they have tagged to relieve the monetary stress dedicated WvW commanders and players face since they are the ones spending the most money to make sure something is saved or taken.
TBH im part of a wvw guild, and im the main commander and i dont spend a penny on seige! Once a week we go EB jp (using mesmers) and get all members to drop seige from there using all alts etc! Now thats alot of seige i have to upgrade and stuff! Just a thought
I think a perfect WvW skill would be “salvage siege”. Apply this skill to improperly placed siege and generate a supply pile. Ranks in it would yield more supply. This would let people salvage rams for supply and build siege after capturing a tower/keep, and would let people learn from their mistakes without as much blowback from command. Of course this skill could be abused by a spy just wrecking siege, but one hopes Anet has ideas to stop that.
Just a thought