Gear is crafted, but not all crafted gear is equal.  You can throw a crappy piece together easily, but top of the line gear will take you hours to obtain (assuming you're doing the leg work and making it yourself).

Full loot is NOT guaranteed at this point.  Some form of looting will happen on the hardcore server, I'm sure, but it may be inventory only, or it may be full loot, or it may be % drop chances.  These are the things that haven't been decided yet.

On a sidenote, on regular rule set there is also multiple PvP rewards, that don't involve looting another players items.

- There are PvP engagements which will automatically distribute rewards to higher performers, or sometimes to all performers. They can also give negative achievements for failures.

- You gain military experience every time you defeat a player from a rival nation. This military experience is used to gain military rank and military rank can be used as a filter on missions and as a requirement on items, and have a vendors to allow you to purchase those perks.

- Rival Nation members also have their own loot table which will very rarely result in items, but will generally result you tearing their nations insignia off, which you can turn in to for additional military experience and a possibility of rewards.

Originally posted by RagnorMalak

Originally posted by Mothanos

Hmm not realy impressed yet tbh.
Looks almost the same as TSW, with likewise bad animations.
Hope that are placeholders and not the real animations, world looks epic tough.

 

This game is not about looks or combat animations. It's about beign a true sandbox with the freedom to go where you want and do whatever you want. Heck, if you want to you don't have to fire one bullet and still be succeful in the game by beign a crafter or tamer. People can build their own cities and create their own lands. Not at all like TSW, which is in fact a 100% theme park.

As someone who plans to be a crafting only character, I say  gank away guys. I'll be in the rear ready to sell you the new gear ;)

Originally posted by Evolution8
Full loot, FFA PvP, Housing, SWG Style crafting system......So far this is the best possible chance at getting a real PvP game, and yes i plan on gainking everyone i see ;)  The idea is great, the team is well funded, lets give this one a shot.

Wish you wouldnt use the term PvP'ers in this context.  Use a term like hardcore PK'er or Niche player but FFA Full loot PvP does not interest even a fraction of the MMO PvP playerbase.  The ideas postulated in this game is destined to playerbases as robust as Mortal Online or Darkfall.  Enjoy that small niche style because it sure as hell isnt going to garner much more support then that.  Ohh and lets also not forget to mention its a scifi game which limits its marketable playerbase even more.

Originally posted by Evolution8
Full loot, FFA PvP, Housing, SWG Style crafting system......So far this is the best possible chance at getting a real PvP game, and yes i plan on gainking everyone i see ;)  The idea is great, the team is well funded, lets give this one a shot.

Oooh...hadn't really looked into this game until now, but it sounds very promising!!! Especially as it's free to play, so I can do a free trial. Me likey! Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Originally posted by Zylaxx

Originally posted by Evolution8
Full loot, FFA PvP, Housing, SWG Style crafting system......So far this is the best possible chance at getting a real PvP game, and yes i plan on gainking everyone i see ;)  The idea is great, the team is well funded, lets give this one a shot.

Wish you wouldnt use the term PvP'ers in this context.  Use a term like hardcore PK'er or Niche player but FFA Full loot PvP does not interest even a fraction of the MMO PvP playerbase.  The ideas postulated in this game is destined to playerbases as robust as Mortal Online or Darkfall.  Enjoy that small niche style because it sure as hell isnt going to garner much more support then that.  Ohh and lets also not forget to mention its a scifi game which limits its marketable playerbase even more.

Obviously you didn't actually take a look at the features of the game or you'd realize the OP is looking solely at the hardcore server.  The normal ruleset will have safe areas, no corpse loot, etc. Also, concerning the hardcore rulset - it isn't finalized! Exactly what kind of loot hasn't been decided and the game isn't FFA. At bare minimum, you won't be able to kill your guildmates, but on both rulesets you can go Rogue and set every other nation on the server to Nemesis.  It's close to FFA, but not quite there. But doing that is a choice, not something the devs are forcing on people, regardless of server type.