PVP on the Non-PVP servers?

Trebek

I like PVP. But i dont like Ganking/Griefing (Which usually happens on so called 'PVP' servers. I liked DAOC's system of PVP, how they had level-restricted PVP areas, and Frontiers for High level PVP. Will there be some kind of consensual PVP on regular servers? Or will I be forced to endure the imbeciles who inhabit the PVP servers in order to have fun when i actually am ready for it?

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Long Term MMO's Played:
Ultima Online - 3 Years
Dark Age of Camelot - 3 Years

Less Than 1 Month:
Shadowbane, Planetside
Everquest, Ragnarok Online
City of Heroes, Star Wars Galaxies
Horizons, Fung Wan Online
The Sims Online

LoStCaUz3

As far as I know, the only time that you can be attacked on a PvE server without consent is if you are in opposing territory and you attack first. This means that if you attack a PC or an NPC in a town, An alert will be sent to all the opposing faction members in the area telling them that you are open for attack. But if you are just there walking around and fighting NPC creeps, they cannot touch you.

I would like the idea of instanced battle grounds where if you walk through, you are taken to a place where people up to 5 levels higher than a set number or 5 levels lower than a set number can enter. I guess it would be from 1 to 5, 6 to 10, 11 to 15 and so on. Could that work?

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If you get up one more time than you fall down, you will make it through.

HeFe

Standard Player vs. Environment Server
Players have the ability to attack almost all opposing faction NPCs, including vendors and quest givers. If a player attacks an opposing faction NPC, players of the opposite faction are then able to target and attack that player. Whenever an NPC is attacked, players who share the same faction as that NPC will receive a system message indicating that a specific town is under attack.

Please be aware that some quest NPCs might not always be available. If an NPC has been killed, players should wait for the NPC to respawn.

Actions that will enable PvP on the standard player vs. environment server are:

• Attacking an NPC of the opposing faction
  
• Attacking a player who attacked an NPC
  
• Aiding a player engaged in PvP

Players will also have the ability to enable PvP on their own by using the /pvp command. Once PvP has been enabled by a player, no matter what the method, it will remain in effect for five minutes.

In time, all standard servers will include a consensual Player vs. Player system called Battlegrounds. Once Battlegrounds has been implemented, players will have the ability to attack other players to defend their cities and towns from invasion. We expect the Battlegrounds system to be available later during the beta test.

Well it does sound a lot like DaoC, and I sure hope it's very similar to that.

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein

Trebek

It sounds nothing like DAOC. It pretty much means if you wanna PVP, you need to attack an NPC and wait to get jumped.

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Long Term MMO's Played:
Ultima Online - 3 Years
Dark Age of Camelot - 3 Years

Less Than 1 Month:
Shadowbane, Planetside
Everquest, Ragnarok Online
City of Heroes, Star Wars Galaxies
Horizons, Fung Wan Online
The Sims Online

LoStCaUz3

Not really. It is pretty much saying that if you want to PvP, you should go to the PvP server instead of taking the chance of getting jumped by everyone.

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If you get up one more time than you fall down, you will make it through.

Randumass

I think you can duel poeple just a 1v1 by right clikc ont heir name a the slecting duel of typeing /duel but i think the otehr person must accept this. This is only on the PvE sever in the PvP server you can fight peopel on  neutral ground and can only right people of enemy groound if they atatck you, same for if the enemy is on your  ground they can only attack you if  you attack them first. So in The PvE server you can duel people just by selcting duel when you right click on them.

-Randumass-
Its not the most powerful or the most intelligent species that survives, its the one most responsive to change.

Sphoenix

As a n00b to the whole PvP thing I am all for optional PvP on the PvE server. I like the idea of the whole call to arms thing that I can choose to take part in or not. At least thats the way I understood it.

Keeper of the Moogles.

Slomo4shO

I also heard something about challenging players to duels and the duel would be based soley upon wiether the challenger accepts the duel or not.

Anyone have any further input on this ? I am limited to my insight

 

Odenathus

I play on the PvE server (named Beta) not the PvP server (named PvP).  On the PvE server Duels are not lvl restricted and are purely consensual.  I've had players that were so high lvl that all I can see is ?? as there lvl marks, challenge me to duals.  It's up to me if I wish to accept them.

As for FvF (Faction vs Faction or Horde vs Alliance) the only thing active at this time on the PvE server, is what is posted above.  Someone has to either go /pvp or attack a NPC or aid someone who is attacking a NPC before you can touch them.