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Before I go and start a "Open PvP is a really bad idea thread" I want to be sure this is the path the devs are taking.

Obviously, I think it's an awful idea to have this as the 'default' game system. Play Lineage 2 or any other Open PvP game and you'll see why this is a bad idea.

Am I condeming it? Not at all. But a flag-system for the basic servers should be the norm. Let's have PvP servers as well, but I know that I am the only one of my friends who will bother trying the finished game at all on an Open PvP scale, on the off chance that somehow this time it'll work.

Because I really don't think it will. No matter how smart the devs are, you give someone the option to be a douchebag, they'll be a douchebag. That's basically what it means to be a 'criminal' in these games. Doing something primarily for your own benefit at the expense of another.

If it's a *choice* it makes all the difference. Give an Xp penalty to having your PVP flag down, I don't care, as long as I can choose to turn off the "please gank me, and take some of my stuff, destroying the rest" button.

Darn, I ended up ranting about it anyways.