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So i have noticed that some basic siege and a few people manning it can thwart an attack pretty effectively in wvw, yet keeps and towers are routinely flipped with seemingly no effort by large groups of people (zergs). A lot of the time, these easily taken keeps have defenses built on them, but no personnel to man them. Why is this? The simple answer is: it’s deathly boring standing in a keep, waiting for an attack to occur, so nobody bothers to do it.
So what can we do to make defense a more pleasurable experience and actually get people in these towers? My suggestion is some kind of mini game. It doesn’t need to be complicated. Maybe some maintenance work around the tower/keep that yields some achievements or karma or something like that. Nothing huge, but something to do when the keep is not under immediate threat. Even a simple table and chairs with a checker board would do.
The simple fact of the matter is that by the time the “zerg” discovers a tower is under attack, it is too late to save it, and even if it isn’t, you have to get through the army standing at the door in order to get in and onto the defenses. There needs to be people already inside when the initial attack hits in order to make use of siege properly, but it’s just too boring at the moment.
My idea is a series of mini games or chores, do you guys have any ideas on how to make tower defense less mind numbingly boring?