Thank you Derid, Crimthan and others, your comments are duly noted and taken to the development team for consideration. They have a lot of experience in playing and developing games from the MUD era as well, so understand your perspective.

When we move forward with PvP and anything mentioned here, I'll let you know.

One of the game mechanics we want to ensure is done right above and beyond PvP itself when that is implemented, is the balance between PvE and PvP. Otherwise you can ruin both if they aren't being compared together.