Capture the Flag would be a good, interesting game mode. I'd enjoy giving it a go to see what it's like, I'll leave it to the devs to work out how gold and experience should work for it.
What puzzles me is why you can't have both Virgin and Village mode for the server to pick from. Whoever wants to have Virgin on their servers can, and whoever wants to have Village on theirs can. I don't know if that's a lot of work or easy to do, but I think it'd work nicely.
The game is there to be enjoyed (donkey trolling excepted), so if a significant number of players really enjoyed Village but are put off by Virgin then surely Village can be reimplemented, without necessarily replacing Virgin?
Even if you got just half the experience and gold, I'd play Village mode, I loved it, it felt as good for me as when Invasion mod first came out.
-John