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I agree to most you write. First, I am indeed not the type of player who likes pvp as done in Ryzom. As far as killing diggers of the "enemy's" side (how ever to figure that out) is appropriate, it reminds me bit too much RL warfare (I have done some work as a military historian and know about) where bombing dams, firebombing cities and hospitals, poisoning harvests etc. is "legitimate" as far as it weakens "the enemy". That is not a condemnation, but this style of warfare like pvp simply does not fit my taste thus I abstain from.

Anyway I take the point as far as constellations as the past temple wars etc. are concerned, and even competition at the supernodes which were set up for the purpose that guilds compete by pvp plus digging for the resources found there. Yet I do not see that anybody questioned the legitimacy of that kind of pvp actions, no matter that they aren't particularly honorable or glorious.

Wholesale killing of any digger in LoU and Nexus is only likely to drive them to Ichor, US and Wastelands where they may find better sup mat.

And the world of Atys is not bipolar anymore. Thus it is more questionable than ever to randomly attack "enemy's" diggers. Even a military calculus will rather fit to the strategems of Zhuge Liang than to simple western/christian dichotomies of us-them, god-satan, good-evil. In a tri- or multipolar world the lines between ally and enemy may blur.

But note that my point is not and never was that "PvP is evil". It is a legitimate and relevant part of the world of Atys.