You missing the point here. If I can hit you and take PvP rating from you and the ONLY thing you can do is hit me back and take the rating back, it would be quite pointless to "buy" it. That is, you would have to buy "peace" with everyone in your range, which would be very expensive bordering on impossible.
You have no idea what's going on at EOC do ya? Try going up therte, and the go for no. 1 spot.. try to take the no.1 spot on the PvP ladder.. just try it and you'll find out what's really going on.. gawd the stuff I had to endure when I took the no.1 spot... so many ppl getting oh so pee'd because they had an entire system setup as to who was gonna get the medal in which order...
The main issue with the current PvP ladder is that the rating is kept by deterrence. Nobody will go after your high PvP rating when they know that they will lose both XP and the rating itself.
And you don't think you would get smacked if you took someones PvP rating? Ofcourse not all would care at all, and would most likely hit back right away, but there are always the few rotten apples, who get's oh so annoyed when you mess with their schemes and plans.
Yea, occasionally it happens that somebody who doesn't really care about levels will rock the boat, but I think that in the past year, vast majority of days, the top person on the ladder was there without any effort other than having traded the way up.
ah.. didn't you start of by saying it nvr happened...nvm then.
Personal drama? Hmm, well, perhaps some nutter would pay to get somebody 100-stammed repeatedly - but people at EOC have nothing to do with stam anyway...
Ask EOC players how many of 'em would partake in PvP, unless they could earn FSP on doing so...
I want the thieving PvP to remain the same when it comes to risks. I'm just asking for more options. PvP is "player versus player" in general - there's no grounds for claiming that "PvP MUST be risky".
So basically you would just like to be able to say hi to someone.. ever tried sending someone a msg? That would get you in contact with someone, and without a risk.
PvP in FS comes with risk, and it would become very dull if the game was without it all of a sudden.
How exactly will it kill a part of the game? It will NOT touch the current PvPers in any way.
Go back to page 1, and read the thread.. it's kinda been said many times. You're starting to come of as someone else roaming these kinda threads, only reading what you write yourself.
I personally don't really care. I will probably not partake even in the friendly PvP. I'm not taking part in this discussion for personal reasons or motives, I do it just because I am convinced that it would be good for the game.
And what makes you so sure of that? Did yuou ever go on a PvP binge, really getting deep inside it? If not, you dont know it, and hardly quallify as someone who's capable of saying how it should be.
BTW, I wonder how big a part of their customer base (meaning paying customers) are PvPers and how many of them would quit (and cause financial loss to HCS).
So.. you're pointing at the levelers are outnumbering the PvPers, and as such the PvPers point of view is invalid? Nice.. there have been a few others doing so through the history of the world, luckily they were all dealt with.
This is just ending up like every other PvP thread ever had here... levelers come in, puts something over their eyes and ears, and just go with what they want, claiming it to be for the good of all, without having the slightest idea of which they speak, and without showing enough respect for those involved, to actually bother trying to understand.
/Kit out. Lock the thread for all that I care, it's useless anyways.
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. If there's no deterrence, in any level range the person with the highest rating would be the one that wins the most or loses the least.
with the possibility of taking 40 or 75(gloat) with each attack the only thing that will keep you on the top will be to constantly defend and attack..dominating the field 
