Could it possibly get any more After School Special than this?
By Definition
Player versus player, or
PvP, is a type of multiplayer interactive conflict within a game between two or more live participants.
[1] This is in contrast to games where players compete against computer controlled opponents, which is correspondingly referred to as
player versus environment (PvE). The terms are most often used in games where both activities exist,
[2] particularly MMORPGs, CORPGs, MUDs and other
computer role-playing games.
PvP can be broadly used to describe any game, or aspect of a game, where players compete against each other. In computer role-playing games, PvP is sometimes called
player killing or
PKing.
Player killing,
Ganking or
PKing, is non-consensual PvP resulting in a character's death.[
citation needed] Some games offer
open PvP (also sometimes called
world PvP), where one player can attack another without warning anywhere in the game world.
A pure PK game is one where PvP conflict is the only gameplay offered. End
Xsyon is NOT pure PK game.
The reason I posted this is because this argument is beyond pointless. If you knowingly subscribe to a game that has PVP aspects, then by definition you PVP. It would be impossible to fully play a game with PVP mechanics and not PVP. Making this asinine comparative between PVP tribes and Non PVP tribes was nothing more than one persons
opinion that; even though this is a PVP game, some people do not meet
Their Definition of PVP. Arguing just for the sake of arguing?
I play PVP games (always play on PVP servers if given a choice) because the added challenge that this player interaction beings to the game. If a friendly approaches me or my camp I do not attack. If an adversary approaches me or my camp I do attack. This is the politics of PVP in every PVP/PVE game I have ever played.
This is PVP!