Currently PVP is nearly unexistent. There are already many defences set in place to protect players from Player Killers; From Alliegances and Protection Zones to New player protection up to level 30 (which is roughly 1/3 of available levels) . I do not neccesarily oppose a PvP level range but do pledge for it to not be too tight, as the chances to find an opponent in PvP on o normal basis would be nill.

Under the new proposed free for all PvP level which would be 75 an underlooked fact would be that the people available to participate is pretty Impoverished. For instance, there only about 20 Players above 75, all of them in different alliegances, that login at different times and even different months, if 75 is the cap you may aswell make it the only PvP protection.

My proposal is to make PvP level range more flexible; aroun -+30 to -+20 and the level spread when it no longer applies to be 60, That way under  level 30 everyone is protected, at level 30 to 60 there is a mid level PvP set in place and above 60 everyone can battle.

Seph, I have to disagree on the non-existance of pvp with low ranges! I know we have a "low population" yet, but the gae is most like in alpha or early beta stage, and tendence is for the player base to grow (I'm doing my part advertising it everywhere since I just felt in love with it :P), and with that, pvp will be more common!
Just tell me, where's the fun on a lvl 70+ knight (wich has at least 4 stats on max cap, and lotsa skills capped) to kill a lvl 30 merchant who dosen't even have skills to fight back?

Back in the 90's, when I first meet mmorpgs, my second mmo WAS NOT ultima (it was my third). My first one was the realm, and the second one was a game called the 4th coming. It HAD pvp, with minimum level and a level range. Since t4c wasen't a one server game, but instead, the company who made it used to rent licenses to internet service providers who wanted to run a server, there were a lot of different servers arround the world, with lots of different pvp settings.
My first server had THIS pvp settings:

min lvl 10
range 10
equiped itens loss: 15% chance on each item
bag itens loss: 50% on each item
experience loss: 10% (yes, you could loose exp being pked!)

10 levels were PERFECT since t4c was classless, and equipment asked for STATS and without level reqs (so you could make a naked warrior that, on lvl 30, was wielding a better sword than a balanced warrior). There were LOTSA pvp going on, and believe me, the player base on this server was not high... the MAXIMUM players I've seen logged at the same time was something arround 150 players, in an event day, but still, even with a base of 50 - 60 players online, we had plenty of pvp going on ( I myself was a lonewolf player, not in ANY guild, attacking ANYONE in pvp range at sight).

So, believe me... a pvp range of 10 untill 70 is PERFECT, and we WILL still have plenty of pvp going on. We just need to grow BIGGER, and u'll see pvp all the time!

remember that I even choose the good side, knowing most players always choose the evil side! I'm all up for pvp, but I'm all up for FAIR pvp, where both sides have a chance, or at least the downside has a chance to run! I don't see any fun on 1hko on a player who can't even defend himself and still don't understand all the game mechanics yet!

And, don't worry... I'll be 70+ in no time, and avaliable to kill you ;)

what server did you play T4C on??! :) I rarely rarely ever meet anyone that has played t4c... i loved that game when i was younger.

 

i played mostly on gamerealm server, b ut also the beta server for t4c, realmud (last year), & jungle2 server.

 

see you in game! i am new to FRO.

started on a brazilian server from my old isp (universo online), and when it ended, I played a bit in game realm, a bit in realmud, but ended up playing most of my t4c life on aliens! I played on aliens till the day it closed!!!

 

i looked T4C up.. it has a newer remake or something? I dont really like the looks of it x.x everyone has wings... everyone looks like an elf.. no dwarves? :(