Level 50 pvp zone

I definitely don't count the solo zones or small zones as what they are supposed to be at all.

First, ask your realm about them, and ask people to show you where they are. It will (unless it is asked recently) probably take a few iterations of asking questions to get people to actually point to where they are. So I am guessing there are a lot of people that if given an exam, wouldn't even be able to point to the map of their location.

Imo, not even knowing where the places are or what they do or how they work, this is a failure in and of itself, insofar as to make a solo or small man area.

The kicker though is that it isn't even a separate instance. They are just sitting in the frontier. I think this is probably what kills it. Also, you have to travel there in the first place. That kills it for sure. Imagine being a solo just trying to get to the solo zone and your realm doesn't even have a keep nearby to port to so you just have to hoof it from the relic town and you just get run over by FGs and zergs on the way to the solo zone. You need something that people are aware of, it has to be easy to get to, and I think it should be a separate instance, otherwise groups could just roll through if they wanted to. A separate instance I think feels more safe from zergs and things like this. It isn't the frontier. There aren't going to be huge (meaning like 3fg+ I feel like) groups running around that are taking keeps.

Something else I want to point out, I am definitely not knocking the devs at all. I am not sure if that is what people have thought reading my posts, but I want to make this point now. I have played on many different private servers for different MMOs over time. I played Uthgard, DoL, some other DAoC server, I have played P1999, I have played many WoW classic servers, I have played private servers for an old ass Korean MMO that I won't name. The devs care and I like how they are trying to do things. I get that I am not the traditional dark age player so I am going to have complaints, but this is one of the best dev teams I have ever seen doing a private server.

"- 1/ if you die and have a bad respawn point you can get camped by enemies and in like 10 you will be tilted and you'll throw your comp by the window."

As far as this, I do not think you should have a spawn point into a zone like this without having insta gib purple guards around. Like in the frontiers, there are the relic towns surrounded by the guards when you choose to port to Frontier. Something like this, just put some guards in a small circle so you have a chance to buff up. Enemies can run by, see if people are there but they can't get close enough to just kill you while you're afk letting your dog out. Or maybe you should have a wall to hide behind, I don't know, I am just expressing interest in a small pvp zone, instanced would be nice, as far as every tiny detail I am not sure I am qualified to lay all of that out but in my mind I have general ideas for how things would be but I am not the traditional DAoC player so I will let the people who understand things better decide if it were to come to it.

Essentially I am basically suggesting a battleground, I just don't want to say the word battleground because people will freak out, but if you call it a level 50 pvp zone, then that is something else. But I am not necessarily suggesting a battleground, because I think when people see the word battleground they think like Thidranki with a keep. I don't even really care that much about a keep. I think it would actually be cool if they had something like a keep, but it was open, like you can't take it and claim it, but you can still go inside and use it for cover and lay an ambush or try to fight people inside of it. Like the way the solo zones are set up now, it's like a keep in that it's a castle thing but there isn't ownership or anything like that. But, I am not sure if something like this would be possible. Like months ago, I didn't do it that much, but in Old Frontier they had those Flags and you stood on the Flags and you captured them for your realm. Maybe a keep like that, where a realm "owns" the keep by keeping so many people in whatever the boundary would be, but there aren't guards and stuff. This way it would let people know there are enemies in this keep area, but you don't have the whole PvE with the guards and stuff.

"-2/ It really drops down the strategic aspect of the RvR (about respawn, boat time, travel time, etc ...)"

100% it does. If it is a small zone, and you respawn in the zone, and there are no boats, you don't have to consider things like this. You know where the enemy respawns. You may not know if they continue to play, maybe they log after they die but you know where they are. My goal is just to fight other players, to try and maximize the rate at which I can get into a fight. One decent fight that lasts 25 seconds for every one hour of play is terrible. I am not looking to destroy the frontiers and keep taking and relics and towers and zergs. That is all fine. I just want another option if I am just looking to do combat with other players. Combat.

Something else I want to say is that what kills the solo zones I think is basically that you have to travel there first, and then there are three of them. It is cool you can port between them, that is interesting. But imagine having to explore the solo zone, and then maybe someone else is doing the same thing, but they are at the solo zone in hib, and you're at the solo zone in mid, and neither of you know the other is there, so you both just waste your time. Then one of you says, I will go check out the Alb solo zone, and the other says I will go to the hib solo zone, and you miss each other again. The reason why you can't just port to the solo zone automatically I think is because then people would just use it as a free port when their keep ports are down or something. Basically it will be exploited. But if it was an instanced pvp zone, you don't have to worry about people leveraging the extra free ports to get an advantage while capturing keeps or something.