Guild Wars 2

Would it be possible to change the towers/camps/keeps to be upgradeable using Badges aswell as cold hard cash?

Down here in T8, a small handful of guilds have to shoulder the whole burden, not only of their own keep or claim, but whole borders. For the general populis that we try to educate about the importance of upgrades, these places magically upgrade themselves, while our guilds coffers lose around 50g a week.

I’m pretty much overflowing with badges, I never pay for my siege because of puzzles and badges, but I think it would be a welcome addition to be able to use them for upgrading bases in WvW too

Cheers

Even with the fixed loot drop rates, WvW doesn’t net anyone nearly enough to make up for upgrades; some single ones cost the better part of a gold. Nothing in WvW should require money spent unless WvW turns into a lucrative activity. =/

As in the real world, war requires money, huge amount of money

Still, would be nice to be able to pay via badges.
Or redesign the payment mechanic into a money pool filling up a bar…

…this would/might help PUGs into upgradeing. Everyone could pay in the amount what they currently are able to afford. As well as present an incentives to “fill up the bar”.

Didn’t Anet design WvW to be a money sink like the mystic toilet? One of the reasons I don’t WvW much anymore. It would make sense to use a WvW exclusive currency to be able to do things in WvW, but perhaps Anet just wants you to keep spending cash.