Suboxide
sounds strange 'no pvp' but a free guild would be able to own an op???
If this idea ever would come into existance then I would just find it normal a 'free' guild wouldn't be able to own an op, even more why would ppl in a free guild have the knowledge how to use cats? Maybe ppl in such a guild wouldn't be able to use cats that would lvl out the recruitment difference they got over traditional guilds.
I think he meant no PvP flag PvP (the one you have to activate via the symbol in the health window)
And with that restriction OP PvP would be possible (even attacks on other people's OPs) as OPs were always meant as Guild vs Guild and not Civilisation vs Civilisation or Faction vs Faction.
And with the "free" option it would be possible to create free-kara or fyros-free or all the other combinations that are possible with neutral right now. So a free-kami guild would still be able to do FvF and and tryker-free guild able to do CvC.
And I wouldn't implement the chat restriction only during the battles but in general though I think a marker on the name (marking that person as a possible spy) would suffice (only in the faction/civilisation chats where the guild is "free"!!).
And the noPvP of the respective type would prevent any problems in regards of attacking other people during fights
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