"Unfair" PVP

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The most fun PvP for both sides is when a fight is butt-clenchingly close, with the fight going down to the last two or so people standing fighting it out with their remaining handful of nanobots and other consumables. I think most people would agree on that, unless they're just interested in steamrolling so they can brag about their Ep!C Sk1LlZ.

This very often doesn't mean 4v4 or 5v5 or 6v6. It can be that, or it can be a 3v7 with some strong players facing a larger group of average-ish players. It is admittedly often very hard to predict ahead of time how a fight will go, and thus what amount of restraint is "correct". If someone gets it wrong once that doesn't necessarily mean that you should go on Discord and declare them Enemy Of The State and that they should be ganked a hundred times to make up for their grave mistake. That is how every dumb cycle of "Ganking the gankers" starts. This may come as a surprise, but ganking the gankers also doesn't actually make for better PvP encounters moving forward. It just guarantees they're all underwhelming.

Some people also just have enormous but extremely fragile egos. As their own self-image is incompatible with losing, they will likely never give you an interesting fight unless you have a larger group and can dictate the odds.

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