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For the career soldiers of Mystical Awakening, the art of war must transcend the occasional skirmish or raid. For its seasoned veterans, only the grandeur of empire building can provide the depth and breadth of combat that Mystical Awakening desires. To this end, Mystical Awakening hereby joins its destiny with that of the Empire of Xeilias - the first nation of PFO.

With years of PvP experience in a myriad of titles, Mystical Awakening looks forward to plying their skills for the prosperity and glory of the Empire.

Augir
Mystical Awakening/EoX/Northern Coalition

I cannot claim that I read all posts, responses and counter-responses on these forums but it seems to me that the majority of this community feels negative about pvp.
I certainly understand the view of people wishing to travel safely through the River Kingdoms, explore or trade, build settlements and live in peace free of any fighting. This dream could only happen on a pve server and we know this is not possible. PHO will offer a variety of tools to help with that dream but without strong support from the armies (pvp players) your area will be overtaken by others. Forum declarations will always lose to reality in game.

Territorial control is the main attraction of this game for larger crowds. Ability to form alliances, pacts, coalitions to enforce your law, taxes, control resources - this is what drives the community in EVE Online. Believe or not it will also drive the community here.

We all want PHO to succeed but without thousands, tens of thousands more backers this game will in the long run die because of financial problems. When costs are greater than income you fire staff members to lower your costs, slowing work and implementation of new futures and it's a downward spiral from there.
PHOs current support has been drawn mostly from Pathfinder fans, D&D 3.5 Edition ruleset etc. From the numbers on Landrush you all can see it's not enough. We need to extend our hand and show through the Alpha/Beta phase that Pathfinder online is a fun and dynamic game and not a clone of WURM pve server.

This is not the only game currently under development which will offer similar futures, RvR Camelot Unchained comes to mind, with similar Alpha and approx. release dates. Some might argue that PHO is a completely different type of game, but I believe on the current gaming market with so many new sandbox/themepark games incoming in 2015 we need all the help we can get...

So my fellow PHO backers, embrace the possibility of daily pvp, fighting for control of the towers and skirmishes with your neighbors - get ready for it because wanted or not, pvp is the major part of Pathfinder Online.

Augir
Mystical Awakening
DEYS/KDS guild