What does it take to make a pvp server?

[Doktoor]

You have to have some rules or people are just going to leave. There's only a small subset of people who will actually hang around for SZ rules. SZ rules suck.

The SZ folks will cry "blue" till they're blue in the face, but you cant allow training, corpse camping, and bind rushing. It pisses people off and they leave. One jerk can make dozens of newbs quit.

I'm not talking about real pvp here. I started on VZ a few months after its creation in Freeport and I had constant PVP from SKs and Necros 8 levels higher than me. If I exp'd for 30 mins without getting attacked I was shocked. It didnt scare me away, it made it more exciting.

But if D'Bags were training 10 mobs over my head every 30 mins and causing me exp loss, I wouldnt have hung for that.

Real PvP with the goal of killing someone without the aid of mobs (gimp style) is part of a true PvP server. Being a dick is just being a dick and it turns alot of people off.

You have to have some rules.

IMO, though, the EXP, penalty or no, doesnt matter. People will still play, they'll just exp more or less.