Though my group of 5 roam WVW on the new borderland maps while everyone else sticks to EBG, the Oasis event is good and bad. 5 of us can complete the event and take a whole borderland by ourselves. We dont mind it but it has happened to us as well. My suggestion is to take the auto firing Oasis Event and turn it into a Super Cannon like in EOTM where people have to be on it to fire it. Put two cannons up there but make it something that has to be manned or guarded to continue to break down the walls. Basically, the way it is, the last group to stay awake takes all the PPT for the night. If you make the Oasis manned, and put a timer on it, then based on the amount of people and their skill, they should be able to take 1-2 objectives, not the whole map.
Another suggestion that would get more people back into WVW is to change the EBG map. With that map being the only thing people know, they tend to stick to it instead of trying the new maps. “But there is no fights there” is what we hear from people who are used to zerging instead of doing tactical havoc squad stuff. The objectives are so far apart that breaking down walls from one objective is no longer possible but the nice thing is that there is plenty of space for those that GvG there without interfering too much with the map. Just turn off the EBG map and you will see the numbers of the true WVW players remain on the maps.
Another suggestion would be when an objective turns T3, why not make the barricades T1 walls. This insures that the objective can be held longer, and not pew pew’ed down but sieged down instead, unless they want to walk all the way around to save on siege and supplies.
Im glad that the Anet Developers spend time with WVW’ers but heading to the top tier and following zergs is not helping the small groups and roamers and people who cause havoc and want small quality of life changes. My group has many more suggestions but the few that I have listed would be nice to see implimented, and possibly not that hard…since you have the code for the cannons on EOTM, and in the beta the barricades were walls. We have some nice ideas about a river around SM with breakable bridges and an underground burial tunnel with fire and traps for StoneMist Castle. Let us know if you want to hear about them.