I generally reckon that anyone who picked pvp servers is fair game, either because they picked the server type with their eyes open or because they need to have their eyes opened.
I don't have hard and fast rules, I just go with the flow of the situation. If I've been pvping somewhere already then I'm very likely to kill anything I can and die trying to kill anything I can't
The game gives no penalties for losing while rewarding winning so there really is nothing to lose, plus it's terrific when you achieve an underdog win
Things I try to avoid are:
- hiding at the back of a big fight, keeping myself alive while others take the risks (unless I'm doing something of significant tactical value like healing)
- exploiting
- denying the opponent a chance to escape. I've been accused of corpse camping a few times but only by people who felt that after I killed them they had a right to come back to the territory I had contested with them and won. So I won't say I don't corpse camp - if I'm in a particular spot and someone keeps coming back over and over I'll cheerfully kill them every time
- /afking out of battlegrounds
- making deals with opposing faction players
- passing up an opportunity for fair pvp. While I don't have anything against unfair pvp, I've killed a level 2 at one point, I particularly seek fights where you don't know who is going to win when it starts and try not to slink off if there's the prospect of one
- targetting the player behind the character (griefing, psychological stuff, etc)
I don't have hard and fast rules, I just go with the flow of the situation. If I've been pvping somewhere already then I'm very likely to kill anything I can and die trying to kill anything I can't
The game gives no penalties for losing while rewarding winning so there really is nothing to lose, plus it's terrific when you achieve an underdog win
Things I try to avoid are:
- hiding at the back of a big fight, keeping myself alive while others take the risks (unless I'm doing something of significant tactical value like healing)
- exploiting
- denying the opponent a chance to escape. I've been accused of corpse camping a few times but only by people who felt that after I killed them they had a right to come back to the territory I had contested with them and won. So I won't say I don't corpse camp - if I'm in a particular spot and someone keeps coming back over and over I'll cheerfully kill them every time
- /afking out of battlegrounds
- making deals with opposing faction players
- passing up an opportunity for fair pvp. While I don't have anything against unfair pvp, I've killed a level 2 at one point, I particularly seek fights where you don't know who is going to win when it starts and try not to slink off if there's the prospect of one
- targetting the player behind the character (griefing, psychological stuff, etc)