Ok, here is my suggestion, I've been playing woe during last time and noticed that there are many new players and many new guilds that started to play woe too, but there are only a few castles activated (From 30 castles, only 8 available)
Sometimes emp room is so crowded that you cannot even walk 'cause of the lag, or they are being hostaged by a single guild, in order to create a better sinergy and make woe more competitive my suggestion is to enable more castles for each woe, by doing this, smaller guilds with have the chance to conquer, avoid hostage, make more competitive.
Well, this is just a suggestion