Arfur
PvP areas have been mooted before with little reaction - see other threads. Not least this recent thread: http://app.ryzom.com/app_forum/?page=topic/view/8435/11#11
I would leave Silan as a training area - there is a PvP arena there already.
Maybe a Silan clone Island which is devoted to PvP, with everybody attackable all the time, for people who want that. It should be free to TP to/from and perhaps different areas for different level players.
Yeah, what I mean is like a small mini world that is FF PVP, there might not be enough of a population for a FF PVP regular server, but if there was a single server with just Silan for FFA PVP I think it would work and bring people who PVP alot of enjoyment.
If it was free to play also I could see it really being a big hit.
I do not think allowing people to TP there though would be good, it would throw off the balance of the game that having it only be for lower level players with only access to low level materials and eventually you would reach a max level, I guess when the hardest creatures on Silan stopped giving you XP, you would also have no access to catalyzers.
It would be fun for sure, as everyone could make a newb there and level him up in no time, and then it would just be like a small faction war possibly, some people would be there to help other people get good gear(well the best on the island), people would harvest and craft to make gear for other nebs on the island, and you would have groups of people who just killed everyone on sight, which would lead to someplayers being like the police, being called to peoples aid and protecting players while they got to max level.
I think there would be enough people from the three servers to populate the little place, and also, some people who are normally againts FFA PVP might realize they actually enjoy it, as you would get to experience the balanced PVP that an easily attainable max level server like that would create.
And like I said before, if it was free to play, people would get to experience some real PVP that would be similar to end game PVP, but instead of being level 250 players they would be around 50-100 or so, not sure how high you can realistically get on Silan.
To me it sound like it would be really fun, and I do not think it would be to hard to implement.