Originally posted by Yarulion
And now, for those who want a harmonious mixture:

Congratulations. This is the working solution. No PvP is ridiculous. You have no value for life because you take it for granted. Full PvP you either buff yourself so you *can* take it for granted or you cower in fear of those who already have. The guild-style fighting in this game sounds incredible (full PvP in a mutual war) and could lead to epic conquests and battles. The arena-style PvP is also fun because once you step into an arena, you have agreed to die and it\'s your fault if you do. Personally I would like to see more than one or two arenas but I\'m sure these guys will do it right. They\'ve done everything else extremely well.

I agree with this whole-heartedly! I would love to join in a Guild War where you have an all-out epic event that could resemble the war battles of \"Lord Of The Rings\" movie. Maybe there could be a reward system for the winning side(?) But, I don\'t look forward to becoming isolated (or to see other\'s become isolated and paralyzed) because there are only special areas we can explore or live, such as towns or rest stops between large free-for-all PKing areas. The idea of several arenas seems like a working idea too, since those that do enjoy the hack-and-slash of other players as themselves can have their fill. If I want to PK I would like to join up with someone else who would enjoy this sort of game playing too. I personally do not have any desire to chase others around who may not wish to participate in PKing just because I can. That?s just plain bullying. A cooperation of respect seems the way to make it the most realistic, as that?s how human societies live today. History shows us that any other way of living to the contrary can and does eventually wipe out groups, societies and nations. I really hope the devs will make it a balanced game world for all sorts of players and not favor one or the other.

I successfully downloaded and set up Planeshift\'s client, created my character \'Astasia\' and played a few moments last night. Now I\'d like to really get into the game and explore the town but I\'m getting the Create Character screen and there\'s no option offered where I can access the character I had just made. Could someone tell me what it is I may either be doing wrong or what I\'m missing on the screen, please?

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Ohh Boy!!! What a newbie I\'m proving to be... hehehe.
Sorry again, folks, I just found out where to call up my character, by pressing the Connect Button... duh :P

I have just posted my comment under Snow Raven\'s \"PVP Should Be Allowed\" before I found this thread.  I think it\'s more considerate than having to send all of you off looking for my posted thoughts on this subject under another thread, so I\'ll just copy/paste it here if that\'s ok?

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Paxx said:

\"I ask everyone realize that currently we will allow various forms of PvP and Pking but only under strict guidelines, Dual, Guild War, Arena fighting?and these forms will even have variances within themselves. But in large part the game will not be PvP, Pk, or allow players pick pocketing or mugging other players.\"

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I really do hope that this decision, though several months past since he announced it, will stay in place. It appears I\'m going to start off on the wrong foot with a lot of players here and become unpopular, and I\'m sorry for this, but I have played in many worlds where outright PVP was allowed and those game are either gone now or have very few players because all those that really wanted to play the game and not have to watch their backs 24/7 gave up and left as I eventually did. Some games got so bad that just trying to step out of one\'s home or safe town meant you were hunted down relentlessly by gangs of thugs just out to make other players their personal sporting targets and then picked clean. I hope that Paxx and others creating this world will consider keeping their original idea of making PVP an event allowed only under special circumstances and in specifically assigned areas.

Ok, I\'ve put my neck out, now to face the slaughter... (Cringes) :/

I downloaded all 5 Parts as well as the Assembler, ran the Assembler and then double-clicked the PlaneShiftV0.2.010.exe on to get a message saying that there was an error, and that the files were corrupt. So I re-downloaded another set of all 5 files and the Assembler from the Secondary download sites and still am getting the same error when trying to run the final PlaneShiftV0.2.010 executable. Could someone check these downloads out for us. There may be a problem from the downloader\'s end and not ours. I can\'t think of what else to do and am getting desperate to join....

Oopps... I just read a previous post that Keldorn offered in helping us with this problem. It seems I may be getting corrupt files because I did indeed use Download Accelorator. That said, I appologies for not having read this posting first and shall go back and try again downloading the client files using IE\'s built in downloader. :)

Thank you for your patience, hope I haven\'t added to the frustration of another \'newbie\' question :)