Robust squad management tools might solve the WvW rewards problem

I realised that, with more robust squads, ArenaNet finally have a way to reward the right people (i.e. not farmers) for playing WvW: if they know that a 'squad' has succeeded in an event, and there's enough people in that squad, then they can award the squad leader special bonus gold and maybe replacement blueprints.

Edit: apparently people aren't aware that it's usually the commander (e.g. the squad leader) that places blueprints. They cost money.

This wouldn't even be that inflationary, because it's one person getting a payout per tower or keep every five minutes, max. In the grand scheme of things, this just isn't that much. The risk is that you'll have a lot more commanders coming in to farm gold who aren't willing to co-operate, but then if they don't get people to co-operate with them, they're not going to be very effective at gold farming, now, are they. (If you aim it right, and have it be in the realm of 1-2g, that's a lot for one person but it starts to look pretty bad for the time spent spread amongst a whole WvW squad.

Actually, you could do the same thing for defence events, now I think about it: if you have a squad, and enough of the squad contributed to the defence event, it'd be safe to give the squad leader rewards. It's a lot easier to measure, in aggregate, if a defence event succeeded than it is to work out if each individual player was contributing to an event.

Anyway, looking forward to the comments telling me how I don't understand WvW. Put 'em right down in the box.