Freeholds: do you want a PvP settings for your freehold?

I'll disagree strongly with any benefits for 'setting your Freehold to FFA PvP'.

I'm also slightly against any benefits for setting it to 'normal PvP rules' or just not setting it at all.

I view both those things as just creating a division in the playerbase, creating Arya's 'anti-carebear' meta. I feel this because in my game-community management experience, Arya's approach and attitude towards players who are not yet ready for the so-called 'real world' is unhelpful and not productive, it pushes them away, insulates and breeds toxicity in the middle tier players (because they feel justified in pushing around the casual/lower tier players) and doesn't encourage growth in either group.

My experiences are, of course, limited, but I can only go off them for now. So if it were up to me I'd advise against it/not choose it.

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I mean, my main stance on this is still "make the freehold a non-pvp zone", just as it was stated previously, so we kinda agree on that. But just as every other pvp is in the game to let people prevent other players from doing some content, because it's profitable for the attacker in some way - attacking someone on their freehold applies in the same way. To me it's definitely less meaningful than attacking someone for a farming spot, but it could still be used as a tool for pressuring a node or a guild or a group of players, so it's not completely meaningless.

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L2's gate pvp was one of the funnest shit in the game. And it worked exactly as you described. If anything, no-pvp freeholds would bring more fun to the game.

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Preventing high value artisanry, which would've generated xp for the node. Preventing high value trade of the results of that artisanry (in case in was done inside the house), which would've boosted node's relations and citizens' progress.

Those are the biggest two, but I do think that I thought of more, but I forget them rn.

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Yes, majority of pure artisans would probably not turn it off and hope they have enough money to cover the taxes. A few might risk it for the discount. But even if none of them do, there's still the "guild/group" part of my comment, so that still stands.