yeah except high renown (past 100-250k) is designed to primarily be obtained through pvp activities (altho idk, theres probably some stuff wack out of balance rn since the update is like 2 weeks old). past one million, the game practically stops giving it to you for doing pve stuff
It isn’t designed for PVP at all. Vetex expressed very firmly that he hates PVP and would gladly remove it from the game through his rant (which you can probably find it with some searching) about how he hates PVP, and it’s community. He only left it in because the percentage of the community that likes pvp would go bonkers.
You can easily get high amounts of renown from PVE activities (even more so with fleets which is a PVE activity), and it doesn’t stop being a good source of renown after you reach millions. There’s several people on the leaderboard or that have been there at some point through just grinding PVE activities.
i don’t see how gating off cosmetic items to pvp players is bad game design. they are supposed to be pvp rewards, the fact that you can grind pve to get there isn’t the intended way you’re supposed to get there. all of the useful stuff in the knights proxy/brotherhood of balance shops is already obtainable by pve players
It’s bad game design because it’s making content in a PVE focused game exclusive to PVP players in which PVP is not the focus and is filled with toxic behaviors most of the player base does not want to be part of. Grinding PVE activities is literally the focus of the game, as stated by Vetex in his dislike of the PVP aspect of the game. Exactly, the useful stuff is available, so why not the cosmetic stuff? There is 0 reason to gate it to a niche part of the community and keep PVE players with a limit on how much renown they can have.
The alternatives/options I suggested only give more opportunities for PVE players to stay in the game for longer and still allows the PVP community to keep its corner.