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WoW Role Playing - Player vs Player (RP - PvP)

April 6th, 2007 by Shenron

The role playing PvP realms are an extension to the role playing realms in that they use the PvP rule set instead of the Normal ( PvE ) rule set. Blizzard did not initially have this server type when the game was launched. It was added later, largely due to player feedback.

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WoW Role Playing (RP)

April 6th, 2007 by Shenron

The role playing servers use the same rule set as PvE ( normal ) realms, with the exception that players must act and behave in character, and must follow “naming rules” when they name their character. This means that if players go onto one of these realms, those players act as their characters and anything that is not done in character is then out of character and usually in ( (brackets) ), or preceded by “OOC:”. It is also against the rules to be off-topic in all public channels, such as General and Trade
However, it should be noted that this is very rarely enforced ( unless brought to a Game master’s attention numerous times ), and out of character chat is common on Role Playing servers, though usually not in such a blatant manner as on non Role Playing servers.

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WoW Player vs Player (PvP)

April 6th, 2007 by Shenron

PvP realms will flag the player for PvP as soon as he or she enters a neutral or opposing faction’s zone. Faction specific zones (Zones made for characters between levels one to level twenty and the major cities) are friendly to the player and are indicated with a green name when entered. When a player enters a contested zone ( indicated by a yellow color ) he or she is instantly flagged for PVP. Entering an opposing faction’s green is indicated by the zone text being red upon entering. In this situation, you alone are flagged for PvP combat. Enemy players can choose to engage you (thus flagging themselves for combat as well), or simply ignore you.
PvP flagged players may attack any other PvP flagged player of the opposing faction. Players on PvP servers can only make characters on one faction ( Horde or Alliance ), as opposed to PvE realms, where players may create characters on both factions.

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Wow Player vs Environment (PvE)

April 6th, 2007 by Shenron

On the Pve ( also referred to as Normal ) realms, throughout most of the world, the PvP flag may only be enabled by actively turning it on, entering a “ Contested Territory ” ( such as a Battleground ) , attacking a hostile player , entering an “ Enemy Territory ” ( an enemy faction Capital City ) or by casting a positive spell on a friendly PvP flagged player. The PvP flag will be removed when the player has been out of PvP battle for five minutes. If the PvP flag was enabled using the command, the player will need to turn it off using the same command and then avoid PvP battle for 5 minutes while also residing in friendly territory. Players also seem to use this command to ‘ raid ’, or attack with a group, towns of opposite faction.

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WoW Realms

April 6th, 2007 by Shenron

World of Warcraft ( WoW ) uses server clusters, also referred to as ‘ realms ’, to allow players to choose their preferred game play type, and to allow the game to support as many subscribers as it does. Users may have up to ten characters per realm, and up to a maximum of fifty characters per account. Blizzard Entertainment posts announcements on the login screen of World of Warcraft about realm status or issues. The current status for each realm can also be viewed on their main website too.
There are four types of realms:

The last two of the list enforce a set of role playing rules in which players can be penalized for not abiding by the rules or not ‘ role playing ’ as it is called.

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