Looking at the only current comparable competition afaik, Elder Scrolls Online, GW2 is already better (IMO ESO went so big it totally ruin smallscale. Hell it went so big even the visuals seem to dwarf a character with their wrong scaling). Some lessons can be learned though:
- Capping secondary resources (ie camps) linked to the major keeps prevents spawning there. Seems like a better way to handle it than the knock on door swords, but would require many more secondary objects. ESO has 3 around all keeps.
- Limit to the amount of siege that can be placed at a keep.
- Less AoE skills on the whole (which would obviously include siege).
- Multiple starting points to avoid spawn camping.
- An achievement goal for the campaign. In ESO its cap all central keeps to gain access to the imperial city, DAoC had something similar if I am not mistaken. GW2 had the obsidian sanctum stonemist link but they removed that. The more points you get from SM seems weak. Tiers are decent incentive to be competetive, but doesnt give my server a direct reward for something done that evening (or any reward at all for that matter). Gw2 isnt bad here, just meh.
And… well, thats about it. I will not disagree with the need for bigger maps, but current size is not so bad. EoTM show how it can be done better to make it look bigger than it really is. Nor will I say anything about the AoE cap, because I wish to have the 1000x more detailed characters compared to DAoC and still have playable, intense dodge action combat. ESO combat pretty much prove that yes, too grand scale kitten up fluid movements.
