Raeil
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In my experience, which has not been that extensive pvp wise of late, private servers are usually so chill that pvp may as well be turned off. I’m on two servers where I literally leave things in open stations, alters, ECT outside just to see if anyone will take anything. So far no one has.
That said I play on another one where you do have to watch your back during pvp hours but so far there’s been no hacking or exploiting that I’m aware of.
Aka depends on the server and since they are public bad elements could join anytime. I don’t have any suggestions on how to deal with it if it happens. Personally I’d probably just quit and maybe try some other servers if it happened but neither pvp or the base game hold any appeal to me at this point. The only reason I play on the pvp servers that I do is that they have very low ping and a mod list that I like. Would have preferred pve with the same ping and mods but none existed at least at the time I was looking.
I do go into it with the expectation that it’s not going to be permanent so I never do much if any grinding or hoarding. Not anymore anyway.