I've said, In the past, that the best improvement to CRS would be a territory system.

I called it tribunal wars in the past.
But I think it could be cabal if we just changed up "who owns where."
I'll give the empire as an example.
Losache, Jade city, Seawatch, and The Imperial Palace.
These areas are revamped to be a "dungeon or instance."
You fight your way through npc's and get to a boss. Once the boss is killed, you get an npc boss that takes hold of that location.
One must wait 24 hours to take on the next raid.
The area is under enemy control until the defending team comes and takes out the new 'enemy boss.'
The next day, you take on the next dungeon and it unlocks the third. Wait 24 hours and take it on.
You have to work backwards if you're defending. (Maybe) and you re-take over your territories.

If a group can take 3-5 Ooc days and really fight through all this pve, while still defending 'their instated enemy bosses,' then they can finally attack the keep and get the relic.

This type of crs would give more time to the crs process, allowing a team to defend, eliminating quick and easy ninja ganks.

When people see their territories getting taken, they'll become more active to try and take back over their land.

Shut down this idea if you must. But I wanna see it in the next five years. Fingers crossed.

With the 24 hour time delay, I can't see this ever going past the first stage of attack. Team one logs in, conquers said area and eventually logs out. Opposing Team logs on, takes it back while the other team is logged off. Raid has been reset. Unless of course the opposing Team is a dead faction or one with not enough players to do jack all about recovering lost land. But if both have a player base, it'll just be a back and forth between the first Tier. And eventually people will just dump the idea all together.

CRS is pretty defunct now anyways, since Dulrik changed it so that you keep 3/5 abilities without your relic. Nobody will bother taking relics, and even if they do, there's now very little incentive for anybody to give a umm... that their relic is gone.

This simply isn't true. Certain cabals top two abilities are amazing. Hammer loses what makes them the only front-row capable people. MC loses a nice overall buff (if they're well geared) and their new toy. Fist lose throwing folk around and slapping people a bunch. Basically, only the Harlequins are in no danger from that change because the primary ability that everyone uses them for isn't one of the top two that can be removed.

another garbage idea

if crs was fun and people liked it, cabal powers wouldn't have to be linked to relics to force/compel otherwise disinterested players to participate.

unlink those last two powers and u will never see another thread about crs cause it will be entirely optional - with everyone opting out.