1.) a.) If you were one hit from impending death, your chances of survival were not guaranteed anyways.
b.) If you have to grab a beer, take a shit, or otherwise be away from your screen, log the FUCK out. That's just retarded. Back in live I went to the char select screen, somehow it logged me back in, and I lost an item (Rallos
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]) Now I know just to go back to server select.
2.) Faction/Guard protect will be fixed when they can. They know.
If you are worried about people not pvp'ing because they fear exp loss, why are you not worried they avoid pve for the same reason? Plus from what I understand you lose WAY more in PVE than in PVP. Even if you didn't.... you should be prepared for that when you chose to play here. It wasn't a secret.