Opening a few castles/Encouraging WoE?

[BlueAlchemy]

Right now, WoE is dying, the main reason is because you need to be in or have a really good geared guild in order to participate, and at that rate its just impossible for any guilds to meet PvP standards in order to do compete with either of the major guilds. So my proposal is that we open up some additional castles in an attempt to encourage more guilds to participate, and since they are not as well geared as NE or Behe, it would sorta be an equal playing field for all the minor guilds. The only visible flaw I see with this is that what if the major guilds just decide to pick on the minor ones for castles, but what else can we try that would encourage minor guilds to compete?