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((Formerly posting as KickAsterisk))
It comes down to this: For all the reasons previously stated, if PvP is purely consensual, than players will only accept challenges (or however it works) from players with characters even-con or lower compared to theirs. Likewise players will only challenge other players with characters who are even con to them or lower.
If it's SG consensual (IE my Hero SG versus your Villian SG) then SuperGroups will have no lower-level members, as they will either quit after being ambushed repeatedly by the high level members of their opponent group, won't be accepted if they are lower than the group "level" or will be power-leveled to 50 as a prerequisite for acceptance.
If it's a PvP zone system, where everyone in the zone "consents" to PvP, only Lvl 50's will end up there, as lower levels will just fall prey to higher level characters.
In any one of these scenarios,consensual PvP forces even-con contests between players, as these contests simply won't be fun otherwise. That means that I'm only going to get to challenge those players who happen to have a character at roughly the same level as mine. Those of us looking for some form of built-in even-con system, through either the monster-code or SK, or RSK, or something else, are looking for some way to open up the playing field so that anyone in the game can challenge anyone else, giving us an opportunity to see who the great players really are.
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Some sort of even con system is the best way to avoid most problems that other games have with PvP, plus it must also remain consensual. Is it realistic? No but in an MMO you have to suspend what seems to make sense to appeal to as many as possible. Some people hate PvP, a great deal in fact, a great many others are casual PvPers they usually have a goal and DONT want to PvP at all till they reach that goal, then there are PvPers who find it challenging to PvP all the time.
There should be a way to somewhat even it out so all levels can PvP like the monster system give the higher level toon a level or two advatage so a level 50 fighting a level 2 the 50th would hit the 2 like a 4th level and the 2nd level would hit the 50th like a 48th. It gives the lower level a chance but not equal. Also have Overt/Covert, Overts are subject to PvP and can be switch on and off through the menu with a 15-30 second delay to avoid hit and run, but you normally can only duel by consent. A reward for the winner of any fight of an enhancement equal to the power of the opponent, to encorage more Overts. It isnt perfect but anything different is likely to be as disatorus as other games that have PvP.
