i don't pvp much, i assist my fellow faction members if needed, but i don't deliberately look for pvp, that's just my style
i think that it is balancing out more now with the 4.87 update for trader/pvp/hostiles
this i think and hope will improve with rp which is what this server is about
i think, if you can rp, as in get in you character your playing, you should be able to work a situation out,
eg
i was in a planetform shire, heading to planet cambridge, i met 3 corsairs, 2 snubs 1 gunboat, they stopped me, i spoke to them, we made a deal about me living and then coming back to give them some food and water from Planet cambridge, they said i was silly to do that and that i wasnt to be trusted, but i said "i keep my word" few mins later i came back to them, gave some food and water
it was ace rp, i loved it
(few mins later tho some baf showed up and walloped them)
i just watched
erm... what has this to do with your post
i forgot really, sorry
but i just thought that situations possibly similar to this can and will happen with the thought that now balancing between traders ships/guns/defences and pvp'ers that look for just a kill will be more equal