I agree with your r99 comments and it being, as I've indicated, the "alternate" 1999 where all evils and roots to success were known. Of course it was going to be hard on new people
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But, to be sure, early on in RZ... more PvP was a result of random PKs than a guild war. That changed around Velious with the Sabbat split and Ascending Dawn (with help from Begotten, MiM...) vs. Rebirth (PB,FU,Ordo Malleus snuck in there lol).
In fact, the light versus dark aspect was HIGHLY prevalent as was the aspect of being a "kin slayer" on RZ. It was quite interesting and there were Freeport and Nektulos raids where the lights vs darks went down quite a bit, best of times imho.