No, that is specifically -not- how such realms work, but if you think it is, then I can perhaps understand the confusion.
Opting for PvP doesn’t stop it being an RP realm. It is an RpPvP realm. Still has to follow RP realm server rules, not PvP server rules (assuming they still existed, butyou now what I mean).
A person coming to an RP realm for some ‘PvP tourism’ is -not- coming to the realm for RP, therefore they are the ones in the wrong, and they are the ones playing the game in a way that was not intended.
On RP Realms, RP is the most important aspect, this is why you had RPPVE and RPPVP, not PVERP and PVPRP realms, the Roleplay is the key feature of the server. If you are not involved in the RP, then you are on the realm in error, and you are the one that needs to get with the programme, not anyone else.
Even aside from that fact, There is 1 RP Realm left in the EU, against so many other realms. If someone has no intention of RPing and comes to Argent Dawn just to Disrupt RP then I am afraid they are a deeply unpleasant person, likely with some severe social difficulties. Sounds harsh, right?
Surely I can’t make such as statement without meeting them. Oh I can, I really can. The Internet gives people license to show themselves as they are, protected by a veneer of anonymity. What sort of person do you think, would play a game where they can fight other players, and make ‘Your mum’ jokes, then decide that rather than do so in the correct places, they want to do so in a place designed for something else, which is the only place that does something else, as opposed to everywhere the something else, but they don’t care because their desires are more important than anyone elses. Sound like a pleasant person? Not really.
Good, then we are completely in agreement. People coming to RP realms just for PvP are not playing a game mode as intended, and therefore are obnoxiously selfish.
How embarrassing. OK, I -know- someone who has been banned for PvP. They’re an amiable enough jacka$$ in person, but put them behind a computer screen and they become a…well, male generative organ… They were banned for griefing an Rppvp event after the GM was satisfied that yes, they had just rocked up to disrupt RP. The supreme irony is that it is someone I know from LARP, which is even -more- nerdy.
Another GM has also told me the correct options to select to report people with PvP spamming toys and big mounts in enemy capitals. Their exact words were "If they’d have come for Silvermoon to kill Lor’themar for the achievement then that’s good old PvP, but if they came to Silvermoon on an RP realm specifically to disrupt RP, then PvP or no, report them and action will be taken.
