Ctf is currently dead. With these 2 simple changes that would require little to no work besides Stefan's approval ctf can become active again.

1. Fix the blocking points.
There's this one point where one team can block a water entrance to one sides base, fix this so it's unblockable.
2.
Change rewards to Zone's pk event system. Remove the cost to join, and award gralats for kills,captures, and winning. Right now ctf is just a giant gold sink, you actually lose money unless you win the vast majority of your games.

3(optional). Add daily/weekly/permanent leaderboards and stat tracking
Players love leaderboards and competition. They love raising their numbers to make themselves look pro. Add statistics to a second page of their profile with ctf kills/captures/wins/denies, and create leaderboards for those as well. Players will want to keep playing to keep their position up, so ctf will be played all the time.  

i like the idea..they should also consider making it a guild acitivity with leaderboards/point system that is tracked..pretty sure guild participation will help boost ctf's popularity  

With a few tweaks they could turn CtF into a GST like competiton  

Ya theyre good ideas. ya theyre simple. no, CTF wont become constsntly popular.  

Forget it =P!!! Come play zone!

But yes I like this idea and I hope it's done because right now, classic is a few steps behind zone even though it just came out.  

I personally think it should have both solo matchmaking, and guild matchmaking. Perhaps the guild version can be competitive like guild sparring, and the solo matchmaking would be good for people who just want to play for fun/make gralats/go up on leaderboard. I'm sure they can coexist.