In my opinion the only bad thing there was pre 1.1 was the XP nerf, that took us to 25% xp at 5 resets, stage that took way to much than it should have( i think 35-40% would have been better). Since we can now farm DS6/BC7, thats not gonna be a problem for the next stage.
I think the most important focus for the future should be a healthy community. And although i'm part of Rampage, i think implementing some kind of 'debuffs' for CS would be pretty cool. Lets take for example, if your guild has the CS for more than 2 weeks, increase the friendly fire in that guild , with 5-10-15 every week, in order to give the rest a chance. I don't know if that's possible, but in my opinion it would be cool to see. This would probably make more guilds come to CS, and boost their morale. Another thing that crosses my mind is lower the number of players that guild can come with at CS with X every week. Or if a guild has the CS for more than x weeks increase the drops from CC for the rest(excluding the CS owners), or give BOK+5 more drops when X guild holds the castle for more than X weeks etc. The CS holders would still have an advantage, but it would also give the rest a fair chance to not be AFK and fight for their items more than 1 time a week(sunday).
I think you get the point. Good luck