Okay from what I can tell is.. WoW's PvP is a Honor System with some minor flaws to it (Well, to some of us this may not be minor!)
Anyways, apparently when you kill a lower level you get dishonor and when you kill a player near your level or higher you get honor. Well the problem is the Dishonor, and the flaw would be the fact that if you get too much dishonor you will eventually loose experience ( Yeah... scary) and worse you can be attacked by your own faction (OUCH BABY!) and I am going to try to show you how this dishonor can be a bad thing
Suggestion: Remove Dishonor, Leave Honor, To be used as a ranking for Ladder mabey? This way those who like to compete for higher ladder ranks (which should be based on points, not level haha) will not kill lower levels
Examples
1
So.. World of Warcrafts PvP should be team-based, and played like a sport? Nope, Why? Don't sports teams help each other? Well in World of Warcraft, lets say you're level 50, you have a teammate in the near distant crying for help who is level 20, he's being attacked by a level 20 also, and is losing. Sure it's a fair fight, but wouldn't it be more "Team like" to help out a player on the same faction? Nah.. because I don't want dishonor, so I'll let him die =(
2
World of Warcraft = Massive Multiplayer Online "ROLE PLAYING GAME"? Yeah... to an extent. Let's say your walking through a contested area, having fun wandering, while singing (La la la la) and all of a sudden you come accross an enemy! He's a much lower level, Kill him? No! You don't want Dishonor. Sure you're a Human (lets just say) and he's a Undead (Who are appearntly enemies) but you'll let him live (Let an ENEMY LIVE? WHAT THE...) so that you don't get any dishonor =)
In the other Warcraft games when you come across enemy, Say your bringing a squad of orcs toward your human enemy and you pass a scout, would you let him live? No of course not, there aren't any penalties and it's a War game (WARcraft)
3
You're doing some usual stuff, traveling, questing, whatever, and you come across an enemy! He's a lower level so, you'll let him live (Because your nice) but he realizes that you probably won't attack him since he's a much lower level, and knows high levels don't want that horrid dishonor. So he decides to attack you right? Will you attack back? Nah, if you kill 'em you'll get dishonor! Who wants that
If related to other Warcraft games, when attacked you don't take your army and run, you attack back usually
This is Warcraft right?
Solution: (Any of these)
1 Remove Dishonor
2 Add a new PvP server type (Hardcore mabey? but not hardcore as in you die and stay dead, like Diablo II) where there are Dishonor rules
Agree ... Disagree? (Use your own examples or whatever)