PvP? A few questionsFollow

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Yeah, I'm sure more than a few of you got that one. Here's the deal for those that don't; I have spent the better part of the last year and some odd months playing FFXI, and although I find the game to be enormously entertaining, I also find it to be severely lacking in some areas...

... One of which is PvP implementation. For anybody who has done a Ballista in FFXI, you'll understand just how poor a system it is.

Now, I tried WoW when it first came out (should have just tried this >.<), solely because I wanted to see how well the PvP was done. What I encountered was not at all what I was looking for in a game. So I went back to FFXI, and all was right in the world once more, for a time...

... But soon I found myself in the same old rut that I had been in before, either trying to grind xp, put together a party for Promys, or hopelessly attempting to raise my crafts while still maintaining a profit. I should also mention that I do love my crafts! Yet another reason i should have just came to this right off the bat =P.

So now I am here, looking into EQII, where I kind of knew I would end up anyways, only a few months behind. The game appears to have everything I am looking for in a MMO, save some form of PvP. Now, I'm not saying I want anything as widespread as WoW, but something a step above Ballista would be nice.

I guess what I'm getting at is, does anybody have any idea if/when PvP will be brought into EQII? Any ideas on how it will function? Can anybody provide me with a link on the subject, either to SoE's official site, or someplace else?

Thank you in advance to those who help. I know I could find this stuff on my own, but I would appreciate the community's views on the subject as well. Anyways, off to whatver it is that SoE's site is called, I'm gonna scan through their archives some more :(.

Incorrect. Smedly just but out a letter a few weeks ago to the community, and PvP in some form will be on the way. From that letter (Emphasis added):

I am thinking it may be an arena style which if you ask me would be mighty interesting with rewards and such. Hmmmmm a Palidan Gladiator muhaaaaa pray to god mages I don't come within arms reach of you.

Well PVP can be fun. I like the PVP system in WoW. I hated PVP on EQ because of the whole gotta run back to your corpse thing. But in wow that's not an issue and it's fun to get on and dual your friends or what not. I haven't tried the new pvp honor system yet but I hear it's pretty good. As far as EQ2 goes I think PVP would put an interesting turn to the game. Especially if it was centered around Qeynos vs Freeport. And I have hear rumors about that type of a system coming but it's just rumors. Now forced PVP ***** that. But like in wow you can turn off your pvp easily enough. Something like that would be a good implementation I think. I guess we'll have to wait until E3 in May to find out if the exapnsion is gonna have the PVP implementation with it or not.

Dear lord, I hope it's nothing like the PvP in WoW... even on the optional servers, from what I understand, it's just a bunch of punk kids playing Pallys, trying to provoke people who are twenty levels lower than them into putting a flag up... holy crap, that's a lot of 'p's, eh? ^^