I believe you and understand that it’s why I don’t partake in almost any of the pvp content, it’s just bad and boring to me honestly.
OPR is just like a 3rd person match of LoL mixed in with a little cod… stand on point fight to control points with spawn mobs to help defend stuff…
War I have not done as I said it’s basically walled off to players that don’t have the best of gear or don’t want to join a discord server… got to love that elitism amongst the player base… idk maybe as more zones are added less of this will happen and lower zones will flip more often…
Open world pvp is basically dead, and thats because of the flagging system and the lack of other systems to control players…
they should have just left the game full loot and full pvp… and had some kind of system in place like a bounties system and a criminal rank system… one to control constant griefing of players, one to control players in like towns… something ya feel me…
but hey I would have npc’s that would hire players for jobs both to give the player gold, but also to make a better open world pvp/harvesting system for players…
if players wanted to harvest they could throw on the correct gear go to NPC get a job and go harvest… they keep so much of the mats give so much to NPC and get some gold…
Players could still be killed but this would make the other player a criminal, and other players would be rewarded for killing that player… boom better open world pvp…
I also would add caravans that players in different factions could protect or attack. if they take the defending team the attacking team collects gold and gear and mats…
if the players defend the caravan they get lots of gold.
you could make this part of the transfer of player’s items between zones, but honestly, they broke that with the changes to the trading post… I also would have undone that change…
also, OPR should have different maps per zone… dungeons should have different paths once you turn up the difficulty also should have different mobs… and more… Also why no traps…
I am sure there are other things on the pvp side that I would change or add but yeah what we have right now is just bad… even with small changes and fixes its just going to be meh…
AGS give me a call if you want to know more about my thoughts, you have my contact info 