I agree with reducing the tiers from 4 to 3, however I think deleting the link servers and moving everyone to the 9 "biggest" host servers would be problematic. First it would alienate a lot of long time WvW players who would probably just stop playing if they were suddenly stuck playing for a new server. But more significantly, what happens if one of those 9 servers, or 3 or 4 of them starts hemorrhaging players a month or two after the removal of links? It would be similar to what is happening now on some links, but without any hope for the next relinking to balance things a bit. Transfers are questionable with just 9 servers, IMO -- would you make a smaller host server medium or high so people could still move to a new server if they needed to? Would that cause a problem if one of the stronger new hosts got bandwagoned because it went open for 2 days one week? (and it would happen just like it has happened in the current system). Anyway, basically I just think reducing the tiers to 3 is the simplest bandaid for WvW right now. Removing links and deleting servers is much more complex and would require a lot more work on Anet's part (thousands of development hours).