Ryzom

New joiner here, just got out of Star Wars Galaxies and looking for something else to devour my free time.

I'm still downloading the trial installer, but I wanted to know more about the PvP system in SoR. I read the bit about guild based PvP, but does PvP exist on a more personal level? Is Ryzom like SWG where a player has to be a declared member of an opposing guild (faction) in order for you to engage them in combat, or is it just open PvP, as in Shadowbane, where you can engage any random person you meet at any time?

Today there is no PVP except a duel. So you have to tell a personn to fight and if he accept you can duel. But the PVP will come quickly because they are testing it on a Testing server. I can't explain you what form of PvP it is today. Is someone who is testing it can explain??