My suggestion is to open 1 classic server. Just one. And then also open a PVP FFA server. Just one.

I hear they have an empty server or two that they could use for this endeavor.

this has only been suggested about a billion times.....it will never happen because it would make them all look more retarded then they already do    and the success would showcase their true lack of intelligence

Originally posted by Lateris

My suggestion is to open 1 classic server. Just one. And then also open a PVP FFA server. Just one.

I was in beta3, so don't know all the way back to the first playable version, but I don't think there was ever an option, or a mechanism, to allow full fledged FFA PvP, to include  player looting, in SWG.

Furthermore there were no ruleset servers at all.  The game was the game, and you had the option of being factional covert or overt at first, with TEFs when you attacked factional NPCs that caused you to be PvP enabled.  The "on leave/combatant/SF" system that survives to this day came about in the period right after JTL was published IIRC, mainly because the TEF system was being exploited by some in unforseen ways that created severe play imbalances that in no way, shape, or form reflected anything approaching real life combat.

Now, in beta3 there was quite a bit of FFA without player looting going on, if you cared to flag yourself overt.   I recall battles in the crowded Mos Eisley medical center, of course lots of PvP action in Bestine, Anchorhead, and the countryside in between.

i'm pretty sure there would easily be a way of player looting as we had to go loot our own corpses after a death. easy to make another player able to loot it.

but as stated earlier,........ moot.............such a server will never happen

Originally posted by Sebali

i'm pretty sure there would easily be a way of player looting as we had to go loot our own corpses after a death. easy to make another player able to loot it.

 

but as stated earlier,........ moot.............such a server will never happen

You may be right about that, but if you'll recall only a few weeks after release the player corpse system was abandoned as unfixably broken, which surprised me because it seemed to work so smoothly in beta.

But you are correct that it's beyond unlikely that any preCU server will ever happen under the SOE aegis.