The old crater was the best. When it came up I would always be in a tank getting hammered. Why? because EVERYONE was there doing it. There was very little flying done when that map was up. It made it much easier to spot tanks because there were so many of them firing all the time. I really miss that version of the map.
Im sure HTC could cut down the number of trees. Would it be something that would have to be done in the source files making it a bigger project? I dont know, but Hitech wrote some code to convert the old maps to the new version to speed up the progress, Im sure he could do it again. Dropping 50% of the trees and bushes we have now might be enough to entice those GVers back. Add a bit more in the way of an explosion when blowing a tank up, a bigger flash on a hit and you might pull some of the guys from WOT. Eye candy AND longer battles whats not to like.