OP battles should be made GvG only - IDEAS FOR RYZOM

Stitch

Yes it would leave smaller guilds at the mercy of larger guilds, which is the way it should be.

Oh really? And why that should be that way? Size of the guild shouldn't be a criterion allowing some group of people to dictate their will upon others.

If a guild can't hold an OP by itself, then it doesn't deserve it.

That's where relations, diplomacy and interaction with other players comes in play. Spamming invites to every person in sight shouldn't be the only way for a guild to get access to high level content. It's MMO after all and interaction with other player groups to achieve the goals and take challenges supposed to have importance. And you want to turn it into some poor copy of Guild Wars.

Factions are already meaningless in OP wars as it is since anyone can fight for any side they want to.

Generally they aren't meaningless with exception of some specific cases. It's some oversized guilds that neglecting faction meaning.

Although if a whole bunch of people all of a sudden leave their current guild and join a different one, it's a pretty safe bet that something is about to go down.

So what? In most cases potential defenders would have no clue if they are going to be attacked or no. And when the button is pressed, it's already too late, because recruiting new members got banned by active war. And if there is no such restriction, defending guild would have only 24 hours before the battle to get more people in, while attackers could have preparations going for weeks.