Easy balance of WvW
A great start!
No loot for playing is an irrationally bad idea no matter how you cut it. It is one thing to artificially offer the lesser populated a buff or benefit of some kind. It ludicrous to punish the more populated for playing by removing loot. That is one of the worst ideas in my opinion.
Unless the fix involves rendering player numbers meaningless, I have no interest in returning to WvW in earnest. The incentive for the current imbalance in player populations are what created the mess in the first place. So, any solution that doesn’t fix that is going to bring me back to the status quo of getting rolled by endless up levels on a non-stop K-train, EOTM style .
Outnumber should be a much more significant buff.
Everyone knows how hard it is to achieve anything when outmanned.
The thing i’ve wanted anet to do is swap the bonuses from BLBL and Outnumbered, MF and GF and XP is useless when you get zergstomped, BLBL is same for the other way. Having attribute bonus (maybe spice it up a bit for outnumbered) will make it harder for the zerg to take on the small numbers, and extra kitten from BLBL will give no actual advantages except more pleasant rewards.
Elementalist Mesmer Ranger
Sea of Sorrows
Or you could stick the under populated server in a more defensible postition, like I dunno, atop a mountain.
Outnumbered is already active for the entire map. Pity it is useless to actually counter a numbers disdvantage.