As far as "leveling the playing field goes":  it will never happen.  CQ tried that by having 2 and 3 point countries and it doesn't work.  Same with IARU and WPX.  No matter the scoring, someone will always have a geographic advantage.  Changing the scoring may change *who* has the advantage, or it may change the size of the advantage, but the field can never be level.  The closest we can come is WARC with "spec" stations.