Stats are not needed for role play. The skill of your imagination is all that is required for role play. Stats don't matter at all.
For PVP, characters need to be able to reach the same level as the more experienced veterans, without spending years grinding. There has to be a close to level playing field for PVPers, regardless of whether or not they RP. When PVPers have similar skill that they can all reach without ridiculous amounts of time and effort, the PVP is more competitive and the fighting becomes less about what stats you have and more about how you use them(The skill of the player). There is absolutely no point for anyone, who only RPs and does not want to PVP to have high stats. I see no necessary connection between stats and RP. I'm sure there are RPers who like to have amazing stats, or stats that suit their character, but it is not necessary unless they want to PVP frequently. Imagination is all that is necessary for them. I know I will meet arguments on this, but this is my opinion.
But PVP does have a necessary connection to stats, not all of them obviously, but to the basic stats and the weapon stats the connection is unavoidable and undeniable. PVPers, some who RP, some who don't, deserve a fairly even playing(fighting) field, considering all the grinding they have to do just to make sure they are not at a massive disadvantage to their opponent. The best PVP fights I have been a part of and watched in PS have always been between players who are virtually maxxed out in any skill that is useful to their chosen fighting method.  The PVPer will always strive for the most effective fighting skills and you see this in all games that have PVP mechanics. Whatever kills other players effectively, is what every PVPer wants and will focus on getting/having/achieving, to be fair to themselves and each other.
Furthermore, to be fair to themselves and each other, all frequent PVPers will strive for full sets of enchanted armor, weapons, amulets, etc. and whatever gives them an edge against their opponent. These things are hardly needed for RP, unless you intend to choose to RP your char or your guild into real actual PVP. Which plenty of people have done or still do. Pure RPers who like to roll their dice to decide their battle outcomes, or just pre-design the outcomes of their RP conflicts, from my point of view, have no reason to care.

is the law , No Fighting in Hydlaa, the result of attitudes expressed over time by hydlaa citizens throughout hydlaas history? or just an idea that a handfull of decision makers think is suitable, so suitable these same decision makers employ others, called GMs to enforce the idea on the imagination of PS players, as well as manipulate their in-game actions.

Is there a story relating to PS history that explains why violence in the plaza is frowned on any more than in any other area of yliakum?

Is there a point in time where the people who make up the community of hydlaa actually have a say in its common laws, or are they always going to be handed to them?

If violence in the plaza was such an issue and bearing in mind that it probably happens daily, why isn't there mechanics in-game that prevents it at all?
i know developers always say they are busy busy busy, but usually if ps has a problem or bug that is an issue, it gets attention before other ideas do.
Why after so many releases, can violence ocur there?
The only answer i could think of was to add to the feeling of reality, but this didn't make sense to me, when i remembered how many times the sense of reality in-game had been destroyed for me, through the attempted enforcement of PS rules, that like all rules are open to interpretation.
But now i'm wondering, .......are PS rules open to interpretation???
And do these rules evolve with the community that grows alongside the developing game, or against it?

probably all stupid questions, but thats how my head works.........Ok, target is ready(me) .....time to attack!!

yeah thanks all for your replies, i just thought it was a silly mistake that someone made when they typed, but you have all done so well in correcting my obvious ignorance on the topic, now i can see that it was i who blundered. i suppose for consistency, all characters should be reffered to as male from here on, because we all know they are both male and female.....

at the time, i thought it may have been more suitable to have chosen an obvious unisex term, such as the word "their" and i originally made this post to casually inform whoever typed it, so they could change it if they chose. I should have guessed the typical scenario would unfold..........

an easy to watch informative video on the topic is called "loose change no.2", it's easy to understand and worth checking out. Also easy to get hold of.

of mice and men from barbie to ken people go crazy for moula and yen ............band: the winnie coopers, song: success

ok, after consideration, it seems you are right. i will have to check it, but i think my post can be deleted. doh!

i agree, practically the lvl training can rise forever, without anyone getting past a certain stage.  based on the impossibility of having enough time to gather the pps needed to reach such amazingly high lvls of training. i imagine that the training at massive levels would cost a fortune and hardly be worth it, unless you want to have no time left to rp! we can all buy potions and raise our stats massively, but nobody really bothers too much, because of the effort involved. i may have made a point there somewhere.....hopefully. At least i am no longer a ps forum virgin!!!!