Sartok is dead. There is no question about it. http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?&topic_id=31755

How much longer do you think the server has until it gets shut down?

Why not make a PvP server accessible to all of the characters on the PvE servers WITHOUT requiring players on the PvE servers to permanently transfer their characters? It would work like this:

1. All characters on the PvE server can be 'copied' to the PvP server without losing that character on the original PvE server.

2. Once copied to the PvP server, the 'copy' is bound there. Players could of course delete this PvP character and re-copy an updated version of their PvE character if they wanted to.

The PvP server would basically function as a battleground. I know many of the hardcore PvPers won't like this idea, but lets face it PvP is going to be gone pretty soon. I think many of the players on Sartok are already open to letting PvE characters transfer anyway.

Stupid idea? Comments?

well vangurd is not a pvp based game if you dont like the game its ok to leave :P lots of people love the game the way it is

It sounds like an interesting idea, but PvP has never been important in Vanguard. It was an afterthought from the beginning, and it's still one now, especially since they just announced character transfers again with people being able to transfer FROM Sartok, but not being able to transfer TO it:

vgplayers.station.sony.com/newsArchive.vm

Between some folks leaving the PvP server for a more populated PvE server and others going to AoC or WAR later in the year, I wouldn't put much stock in Vanguard PvP, or even a new server for it. My guess is that SOE will end up introducing PvP battlegrounds/arenas to the PvE servers to give people a place to blow off steam, but there's no way they'll make a whole new ruleset server.

All I want is an opportunity to gank innocent and unsuspecting little nooblets. Is that too much to ask for?

Originally posted by noxxle

All I want is an opportunity to gank innocent and unsuspecting little nooblets. Is that too much to ask for?

In Vanguard? Yes. It's too much to ask for. You're better off with a game that is built around PvP, like Conan or Warhammer.

PvP in Vanguard has always been a tacked-on afterthought. It's not a priority.

Originally posted by noxxle

All I want is an opportunity to gank innocent and unsuspecting little nooblets. Is that too much to ask for?

Yeah, with Vanguard it would be. Not only because you will have (fro time to time perhaps) hard to find people to gank, and when you do it is you that are going to be ganked. ;)

 a team(race&class) based PvP would be sweet

Originally posted by PEBKAC

 a team(race&class) based PvP would be sweet

There was at least one Team PvP server when Vanguard launched, but when they merged servers down to the four that remain, all of the PvP servers were combined into one FFA PvP server.