Well, I(and probably many others) miss the open world PvP and lowlevel minigames in AOC.
This is content that arent possible to experience trough the normal server anymore.
It has been too long since last time I experienced unexpected PvP while questing. Or the weird way we did PvP in the underhalls of tortage, the duels on the white sands shores. The kill hunt down conalls valley!
These are the things I want to do in Age of Conan! Lets do that, if only once more! 
I certainly miss it as well, the good and the bad. As much as I loved White Sands PvP I would think that on an Event Server geared towards end game raiding that PvP may not be wise.
I would think that maybe something along the lines of a Blood and Glory Server with Unique PvP rewards for World and Mini that you can bring back to your home server but with that said I would never think it a good idea to run more than 1 Event Server at a time due to the limited base of niche players.
Iād settle for just throwing up a PvP saga server after the current saga server, worked for Deathwish and Rage for the a few months, and thatās the life span of a saga server anyway, but a few things Iād like to see;
Itās certainly a possibility and something weāll consider! Those are some really great suggestions, Evito.
Its great to hear this will be considered! But please hear me on this:
I reasently learnd that the daily challenges give you about 3 bars of xp. If you are doing a PvP server, Iād imagine lots of players would be exited to do some lowlevel PvP again.
So however you could solve it, please consider removing daily challenges or remove the XP or make them give PvP xp instead.
Because as soon as players is forced trough 39 and 59 they cant do anything else than to continue questing.
This would be EXTREMELY important if such a server is to come, which I so darely hope!
It was a thing back in the day too to a lesser degree. IMO there should be an option to turn off XP gain if so desired.
Also it was a great way to get into the PvP. Which no doubt is way harder to get into, if not nearly impossible at level 80.
That is why lowlevel PvP is so important to the game!
It used to be sooo much fun with the G v G in Northern Grasslands. I really miss it but Tortage PvP is some of the best. Everyone is close to the same level and gear. The only thing that does make it a bit unbalanced now is the advantage that subs have with AA at 20 instead of 80.
True, they removed a fun part of the game when they made this impossible. Possibly without knowing themselvs.
The advantage from AA is pretty slim doe. With the short combo duration on lowlevel you can be so mobile that if skilled gear almost doesnt matter.
Why have a new PvP server when Rage was merged to Fury and Fury is effectively dead? Iām not against PvP but there doesnāt seem to be widespread interest for a new PvP server
I dont know if you have tried getting into PvP in aoc? As it is now I would imagine its nearly impossible. Because you have to play against better geared oponend, thats way more skilled than you, with a combat system that is hard to deal with to begin with.
This obsticle will kill all PvP there is in aoc sooner or later.
Before there was lowlevel PvP. You could level a char to 19, 39 or 59. The best gear was somehow easy to obtain and there were fewer abilities. Nearly no mikromanagement, people was able to become masters of the core of the combat system before they had to deal with all the extra mikro management.
This is one reason.
Another reason is that there is many players who left aoc when open world PvP on fury died and all PvP that was left for them was to sign minis with a 50% chance of getting in the same team as tjeir friend.
A third reason is that there is currently no good world pvp in aoc, so a PvP saga server will give players an experience that is no longer available in aoc.
If the next saga were to be PvP my bet is that we would see alot more returning players. Also it would give new players or PvE veterans that would like to get in to PvP a bridge to actually do so.
As a die-hard PVP player I somewhat agree.
The problems of PVP need to be addressed before a full scale PVP server could be successful. Hereās the short list that needs to be addressed:
Players need to be able to join minigames with 2-3 players as a group. This is an mmo, every other online game in history allows you to play with friends except this one.
Fury is dead. However, the PVP Event week is miles better on Fury/Rage because it utilizes classic zones. Merge Fury and have remaining servers enable the PVP Festival week in the good zones and enable 1 zone per week for PVP. Otherwise, adopt the full PVE ruleset.
Enable completion of Minigame quests under level 80. This will boost participation and will provide a cushion where players can gain more PVP XP and PVP gear tokens before they hit 80. This will decrease the slaughterfest that happens at 80 and makes new players quit PVP instantly.
Force players to stay at 19 for X amount of time (2,3,4 weeks?), 39 for X, 59 for X, 79 for X, then 80. No rush to 80. Enjoy lowbie pvp in all the instances. Every zone will be packed. PVP will be available everywhere
One aspect of open world PvP that has never appealed to me is the prospect of being harassed by higher levels ā¦not a couple of levels higher ā¦but like a level 60+ harassing tortage level toons. One of my friends related their experience of being followed zone to zone by a level 80 and repeatedly killed by that person as they were trying to level up ā¦ not what I consider fun.
So make a Saga PvP server where this is much harder to do with several zone-in options:
Also, greater Rez pad respawn options, such as all the two closest to you in the zone not just one like it happens so often nowā¦as a way for people to escape Rez pad campers. (Especially as for eight hours a day there are no GMs online to respond to petitions of harassment)
I remeber once long ago. I ganked a level 80 DT on my level 39 DT twink. Damn he must have been mad.
It is one of many extremely entertaining moments in this game!
Being harassed by higher level players is one of the big reasons AoC got hit so hard after the free month was over back in 2008.
Whitesands was a complete mess since leveling was impossible due to lvl26 blue geared assassins and rangers snuffing out anything venturing 100m from respad. The same was happening in underhalls.
The first 500m of Conallās was a duck shoot with lvl 27-35 rangers popping lvl 20ās out of hiding with traps only to virtually one-shot them.
FoTD was locked down for days by gemmed lvl 80 polearm guards one-shotting people leveling while passing them on horseback with several GMās watching indifferently as they chat casually with the gank squad.
This toxic behavior withered away the player base for months until the game was canned in favor of The Secret World.
When you are refused to level up by other players the game gets old within minutes, and when there is no possibility to level by doing pvp you are left with no option but to play something that is more rewarding or be farmed to boredom. Too bad Funcom didnāt realize this until several months after the game was mortally wounded.
1/ White Sands, Acheronian Ruins and Underhalls were locked to lvl25 max back then. The only way to get a lvl26 inside one of those areas was to get your level and never get out again. Those players were few and far between, and you could avoid them by going to another instance and another respad. I got 4 chars out of Tortage quite easily in the first year and two more were left behind to hunt down those players 
It was hard, but levelling was possible.
2/ Of those 4 chars I mentioned earlier, 2 started the mainland in Connalās Valley. Strangely enough, I saw more people protecting lower levels than gankers getting kills. Again, avoiding the gankers was easy enough by using instances and respads. The fun part was going to the gankerās instance as group leader while your friends went into the epic one.
3/ The gem period ender after 3 months. Most people were busy killing each others in Kheshatta and around group and raid instances at the time. Again, avoiding bla respad bla.
As for you accusing the Gms of slacking on the job, I hope you have proofs to back that up.
4/ The player base withered because of the numerous bugs. PVE servers suffered as much as PVP ones at the time. The community didnāt have much of an impact on that.
Fun fact: numbers went up again starting January 2009 with the first merges, the opening of more group and raid instances (especially Xibaluku and Wing 3), the addition of pvp resources for battlekeeps and the announcement of the upcoming 1.05 patch.
5/ TSW was released in 2012, four years after AoC. Thatās significantly more than āmonthsā or āseveral monthsā.
Please get your facts straight.
Yes, there was quite a few of these players present, I know of people that had several lvl 26ās on white sands on fury. They were not a rare species at all. In fact they are still there waiting for more players if the day should ever come.
I got 20-25 chars out of Tortage. You are missing my point entirely.Yes, these gank only chars were possible to avoid, but why change game from an established MMO that you are mastering to a game that you are being stopped from levleling in for hours at a time? These players poisoned the beginner zones, not only tortage, to the degree that people unable to level and enjoy the game left after the free month was over.
Once again you are missing my point entirely. Both you and I are still here 10 years later. It is not players like you and me Iām talking about itās the tens of thousands if not more of players that donāt have the patience or indeed the time in their busy lives to stick it out in spite of toxic gank guilds. People that have maybe an hour or two in the evening to relax and play. People that donāt have the time to get 50m from respad only to be popped out of hiding by a ranger and one-shotted by a guard 40 lvlās higher on horseback for those precious few hours. Both you and the devās at Funcom at the time seem to have this point pass over your heads like a warm Khopshef summer breeze.
Yes, the 3 most important months in the history of the game. A bug that enables you to instakill players or in effect become unkillable is not a minor thing. Couple this with the ability to clone items by creative inventory usage and the trade mechanism and the disaster that was the gem feature was complete.
What makes you think that I need to provide you with hard evidence of personal experience?
Believe me or not, I couldnāt care less what you do. This is the internet, everybody is an expert. 
Except for certain pvp servers where players gleefully and actively contributed to the downfall. Not blaming the toxic pvpāers as much as the game mechanics catering to a very very small part of the player base.
I know bugs was a big problem, and many bugs are still with us today as is many of the pvpāers, but on a PvE server since the only pvp server in existence is for all practical purposes dead.
Yes, and I bet it took only a few weeks to conceive of, story write for, create art for, create models for, animate those models, create an environment for, animate that environment, program models and environment and test everything extensively. I know I tested TSW quite some time ahead of the release. I cantā remember the exact date but testing had been going on for some time. When we are talking about TSW we are talking about a game that was in the early development stages when AoC was but a few months old. For argumentās sake, I will say they pulled it out of the āinteresting concept drawerā right around the time AoC started to seriously sink.
It happens in almost every game that trys pvp (other than shooters like battlefield), the community are the ones that ruin the pvp environment and cause populations to decrease. Most players canāt control themselves and will gank lower level players, or someone already at low health. And theyāll usually continue to farm a single person over and over again until that person just quits. While flaws in game mechanics are not a players fault but exploiting those to an unfare advantage leaves a sour taste in peopleās mouth when they are the ones on the receiving end.
To make a pvp style sever work for both pvp and pve players you need a system that limits the number of disadvantages.
1.) All zones need to be level locked for PvP so higher level players canāt participate in PvP in lower level zones.
2.) There needs to be balance, and not in the normal balance of classes. A pve to pvp balance. No one wants to always pvp, sometimes a player just wants to do a quest or relax and not have to be on guard 24/7. One way to do this is to give players a buff they can cast that gives them some additional pvp armor/protection bonus so they canāt be ganked but while the player has this buff they canāt attack other players first. Probably some other ways to do this to but the point is no one wants to pvp all the time or everyone would be playing on the pvp server.
3.) Repeatedly being killed in pvp should provide that player with a buff kinda like RF. You gain increased strength but as soon as you kill someone else or after a certain time the debuff goes away.
4.) Donāt make the major rewards strictly pvp. Even if the reward was a complete set of a new top Teir PvP armor, I personally wouldnāt waste my time. And I know alot of pve players like this. We will endure and participate in PvP but only if it ultimately provides a benefit to us in pve. Or give the player a choice between a PvP item or an equivalent pve item.
The answer to your 3 first points has already been given: gankers were indeeed a pain, but they were easy to avoid and help was plentiful at the time. I was new to the whole MMO thing back then, didnāt even know the common terms. i was helped and found ways. Nobody was stopped from leveling. People just stop trying too easily.
As for the gem bug, again, it affected only the pvp side of the game. As I already said, the pvp and pve servers suffered equally at the time. See point 4/.
GMs: accusations need to be backed up by evidence. If not, thatās libel.
Fun fact: work on TSW started before work on AoC. Focus was given to AoC later, and given back to TSW once AoC was launched. Thereās nothing unusual about that.