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yes those guilds were there. SoN was a big guild no doubt but wasnt that active in pvp. KDL was factions mainly. HWM was house hiding not pvp. KOS and NvM usually outnumbered the others.
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As I said, my memory was very different. Guess we need a definition of what PvP is
Off the top of my head, I'd say between KOS and NvM had maybe 8 on average.
I could probably rattle off that number of SoN (and various allies) that were active PvPers. I can't count the number of times we had even number or even SoN with more skirmishes not at the gate. Nyses and One Eyed Jack cross my mind. Give me 10 and I could go through my old ICQ list to figure more.
HWM had around 3-4 on at any given time at the gate. Yup, hiding or in their house... and still learning the house wasn't safe
Valaria was one of my favorites
While KDL was mostly factions, they mixed it up in PvP quite often... including some faction PvP with NvM. I remember many a fight in Magincia.
There were one or two misc guilds that showed up at the gate adding 2-4 more people. Big Red and associates cross my mind with the 7x7 house right next to the gate.
I'll agree NvM/KoS was large but you are definitely exaggerating the size by a bunch. I'll still stick with 25-33% estimate. And more often than not, the above guilds were "unofficially" allied when NvM/KoS showed up. Add in that the NvM/KoS alliance was maybe 6 months at max *shrugs*
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