Your personal rules of random PVP?

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Red=dead, regardless of level difference.  They chose a PvP server, and if they don't like it, they can go roll on a PvE server.
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I find this rule to be just as applicable on a PvE server, and with even fewer times where it could be considered dishonorable. The choice is made differently than a PvP server, where that choice is permanently made at character creation. On a PvE server, the choice is made on a daily basis as to whether or not you give someone else power over your time by flagging. I will almost always engage a flagged player, with or without hope for one side or the other. The first kill is to be expected if you meet up with an opponent that can beat you. However, I personally think corpse camping is very low, and don't do it, but cannibalize is too useful of a racial trait to be too much of an insult. If I cannibalize your corpse, I probably just needed the life (unless you're a gnome, and therefore taste too good to be passed up) and not to taunt you unless you did something really low. I try not to ruin other people's gaming experience, but a rule of Red=Dead on a PvE server means I'm never ruining someone else's gaming experience. You don't ever really have to be flagged on a PvE server if you don't want to. There are good and bad things that come with the territory, and I take both when I make my choice, and believe so should everyone else. If I played on a PvP server, I would probably have to work out some sort of ruleset as I think a simple rule of Red=Dead would have me griefing, so it would need some caveats. On PvE however, it's simple, and I feel no dishonor in it's practice.

I like random PvP encounters, but I chose PvE realms because I don't play as much as I would like to, and the time I do have, I have things I want to get done. I don't want to give other players a lot of power over my gametime goals, and a PvP server does just that. There are enough gaming sadists that I must protect my time in the game to be sure I can achieve my in game goals in a timely fashion.