Alrighty - just a cpl of observations, my opinions and hopefully some fuel for discussion.
What is it that most of us want from PvP? I would go out on a limb here and say "Fun" - cause after all this is a game - and most people I know play games in order to have fun.
So why is it then that we (and by "we" I mean all of us - Zion, Merv, Machine) sometimes do our hardest in order to destroy the fun of PvP?
1.Excessive use of Hackers
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We all do it - no doubt about it - and in certain situations it's ok - mostly if you are hopelessly outnumbered - then go ahead - get the old Howitzer out of the closet and try to debuff the **bleep** out of your opponent. I sometimes "fight" 10 Mervs by myself just throwing area hacks and then getting killed every 90 seconds - but the only reason I do it (since I am fully aware of the fact that I cannot kill 10 of them by myself) is because I KNOW that at one point people will notice that there is this one person just not giving up and will get motivated to chime in.
But if you already have the clear numbers on your side - and still 80% of you are Hackers - why? I can't imagine you're not feeling silly.
2.Kill 'em as fast as you can
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And again - if numbers are somewhat even this is not an issue - but whenever I see 20 people killing that same one person over and over again I just stand there and observe and ask myself "Why?" - and then usually walk away to find something else to do. Now don't get me wrong - I've had nights where I get all buffed up and then fight 4 or 5 people by myself - but these 5 people ENCOURAGE the fight - they know quite well that they COULD kill me within 10 seconds - but they rather have a huge close combat fight going on for 10 minutes (cause at that point my buffs run out and I WILL die - lol) - maybe because subconciously they APPRECIATE the fact that there is someone willing to go up against them even when the odds are this bad. Then you get other groups of people where you try the same - and about 5 seconds into it your buffs are deleted - as soon as you get in interlock you get the double (or triple) bulldog and you're dead. Or you get nuked to pieces by the 8 hackers standing around. So what do you think someone will do who has done that to them 2 or 3 times in a row? They will stop - why? cause it's no FUN.
Personally I like the "smaller" PvPs that usually happen late at night or early in the morning. Where you only have like 5 people on each side and it actually really becomes a contest of skill and/or tactics.
The large battles always end the same - the scale tips back and forth so many times that at one point people just want to end it and the whole thing becomes a 10 nukes/second massacre on both ends - and that's usually again where the fun ends.
Well - before this post becomes too long. Zion, Mervs, Machines - think about what you would rather do - have fun PvP - or stand flagged in Mara and have nobody to fight cause people do not WANT to fight you cause you are "no fun" to fight.....