Attacking republic in Open World is griefing?

I have to agree that this is crap.

When you join an open pvp server, you expect it to be more hardcore, because its pvp anywhere any time. The people who roll on these servers understand this, and in fact desire it, because every accomplishment is that much sweeter given the added difficulty.

There are plenty of safe areas for people to hide in for times when they dont want to pvp.

If Bioware wants to make these encounters easier for the mentally challenged who roll on pvp servers, but dont want pvp, then they can put these bosses within no pvp areas.

This appears to me to be working as intended.

I am Rep btw and vastly out numbered on my server.

Hay I'm a new player and my first character is lvl34 and have o real guild or group I play on a pvp severer and whatyou did is what I though would happen and a group of lvl 50 just kept killing me I would have gon the the fleet and screamed as loud and long lfg need entire fleet large group of sith are camped out on blaa blaa... and hopefully we could have statred a major open world pvp battle it could be awsome keep it up

PvP on a PvP server? Quick, call the police!

On a more serious note, it's ridiculous. Outside corpse\spawn-camping, exploiting mechanics or farming lowbies, it's regular PvP on a PvP server.

FYI spawn camping is inescapable (until we can choose where to spawn) so that is clear harassment according to the policy that we all agreed to when we started playing.

"exploiting mechanics" is exploiting (presumably) which will also be against the rules.

Farming lowbies however I see no problem with (game-rule wise, not morally).

OP, sounds like an awesome world boss crash to me. For me, it becomes griefing when the person being griefed is not able to rez at medcenter and quick travel to safety.

This.

If it's not inescapable then how are you being harassed? What you are actually doing is making a choice to go back and try again.

What a crock of ****...

Once again, the legitimacy of this game's PvP is trampled upon. SWTOR: A daycare for casuals.

If that is what happened then Bioware should apologise to those empire players.

They engaged in PVP on a PVP server. There is no way that should be against the rules.

Best PvP I ever had in World of Warcraft was 3+ hours of fighting over Kazzak against 2 other Alliance guilds.

It included stuff like 40 people ressing at the same time to AoE bomb them to death right before they pulled.

It ended up with using having a absolute laugh over it on IRC with the guilds we fought later on because it was just a really fun night of great world pvp that you can not possible try and replicate in something like Ilum.

If you get a warning for "griefing" for actively engaging in world pvp then really Bioware just should disable the ability to attack players of the opposite faction and relaunch the game as a single player only game with multiplayer warzones and dungeon crawling.

The game already feels completely dead because you hardly see players from the opposite faction outside of warzones and Ilum. Might as well just take it one step further.

heh....if you look at my registration number here on the forums, I am number 681. I recall the original dev post of this game would have open world pvp and ranted about it at that time.....their definition of open world pvp is that they have a world (Ilum) that has open pvp.....

And BW specifically designed the world to keep the factions apart from each other mostly, which points to thier lack of understanding about PVP or that it is completely secondary to the game.

Yeah...not exactly the definition of any PVP gamers I have played with since I colored my own D20 with a wax crayon.

I did not get a warning, I left early, and a couple of guildies were talking about getting a warning for it. They stuck around after most of us left, and were using the guerilla tactics of tagging the boss or waiting for them to engage then attacking flanks and such.

So, that being said, I will gladly admit I wasnt there for the end and it is possible they talked trash or something and I am not getting the whole story on it. Partly the reason for this thread, so I can go back and say no guys...here's the thread on the forums, if you get warned on it again, point to this. I already told them to reply back to the warning with the Eula quoted for the CSR to read over.