I am interested because I am trying to understand the fascination of it. I don't have a faction, or a civilization. I am a confirmed neutral bucking for Ranger status.
My observation on OP battles (group PvP) is that they are largely determined by relative numbers of players on the sides and by certain high-powered in-game equipment. The possibility of introduction of still more high-powered equipment worries me on that count.
I don't PvP at all in game. I don't find it interesting or rewarding. I've looked at all the stanzas and have figured some theoretical ways that they could be used to player advantage in a PvP situation. I probably have missed some, but I have no incentive or desire to learn further.
I do engage in RL consensual full contact PvP (medieval style), and in that, once safety concerns have been met, equipment plays very little role and actual skill is paramount both in single combat and in mass engagements. It seems to me from the stanzas available that something like that should be possible in game, but that is apparently not what is being talked about.
My observation on OP battles (group PvP) is that they are largely determined by relative numbers of players on the sides and by certain high-powered in-game equipment. The possibility of introduction of still more high-powered equipment worries me on that count.
I don't PvP at all in game. I don't find it interesting or rewarding. I've looked at all the stanzas and have figured some theoretical ways that they could be used to player advantage in a PvP situation. I probably have missed some, but I have no incentive or desire to learn further.
I do engage in RL consensual full contact PvP (medieval style), and in that, once safety concerns have been met, equipment plays very little role and actual skill is paramount both in single combat and in mass engagements. It seems to me from the stanzas available that something like that should be possible in game, but that is apparently not what is being talked about.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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