PVP wise I would suggest something from the game Fallen Earth. Fallen Earth has PVP zones dotted around the world map where you can plant extractors to extract materials. Each zone had different materials but like Ravendawn, Fallen Earth all materials are valuable because everything from weapons to armor, to vehicles and meds are all crafted by the players. This led to massive clan vs clan and faction vs faction wars over these resources to make stuff and make money for the factions and clans in the game. It also had the added effect of getting even casual players involved because the fighters still needed crafters to create all this gear with the resources. Also ocean content in Ravendawn is ripe for the picking for PVP and group content in general, add some badass sea monsters, whales, and sharks with valuable resources. I find Knighter a breath of fresh air, someone who seems to give a shit about making a great game is great to hear, and I love the game so much and want to see it grow even bigger.
The main problem is how much ahead the top plyers were. They were ahead on crafting, and then they could get all trophies cheap, and then they could get all houses, and then they could abuse respawns pre-nerfs. It's just too much stacked advantage. What really pisses me off, is how market still bugs and i need to alt f4 to reuse it, and this bug is like since day 1.
This game wouldnt even run on windows 11 for me without jumping through hoops. I tried to work with the dev team to fix it for myself and others and got ignored.
The houses were def got within 6 minutes or so but what made it worse is that as soon as I logged in I mean I hit enter at 7:59 about to turn 8 and I logged in started moving before anyone else and I’m telling you half of the houses were already gone. I imagine they let their team come in and scoop houses up before anyone else bc for about 15 minutes prior to open the game said “only staff are allowed on” the only houses that were open were the ones surrounded by 69 spiders and the ones on coast.
Guild Wars 1 had the best constructed pvp environment ever made on a MMO, I think it would fit Ravendawn so good. If you don't know about it do a research on it, I think it will blow your mind. The competition was CRAZY.