You guys shouldn't be so quick to bash OP just because he cries PvP.
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TLDR:
The game has PvP as a choice within the overarching gameplay mechanic of Combat. Combat is one facet amongst many. This isn't due to purely aesthetic reasons but a consequence of many factors.
Not "Bash", disagree with surely?
Corollary: Everything within the game design is interwoven.
As for player generated content, my understanding is the driver behind the game will be the "background simulation." We as players can influence the development and expansion of the galaxy, but we don't control it. Which makes sense when you look at the "play area". There will never be enough players to have the same level of impact that they do in the walled garden that is New Eden.
My read of the published information is that FDev aren't ready to make the same mistake CCP did and hand over the keys the castle just yet. And I understand what I consider to be a mistake, others may well not. But the apparent Nulsec stagnation of "Mega" Guilds is in my opinion detrimental to the gameplay EvE overall, but also the individual players.
The design of the game, the instancing mechanics all lend themselves to small gang PvP, Large scale battles with hundreds of players and thousands of "characters" staring at a screen that moves one tenth the speed of reality aren't feasible. That's why I believe FD are better concentrating their resources on what is feasible rather than trying to ram the large round peg of mega guilds and player control/domination into the small square hole of instancing. In short, large Guilds designed to project the power and influence required to catastrophically change the balance of power are untenable with the current technical design of ED. (Opinion). Much better to use the size of the galaxy as a stark counterpoint to the insignificance of the individual and small gangs within it.
The current game design of groups/Wings gives the social aspects of guilds with people you can actually interact with in the game, not people you can interact with on an external forum, but never realistically see in the galaxy due to the vagaries of the internet.
The wish to import former "power and glory" from one game to the next is an understandable human desire. I just believe the two games are too different in scope, scale implementation and limitations for this to be possible, even if it was desirable for the majority of players.
Likewise the desire for ED to be at it's core a PvP game would require fundamental changes to the whole IP that is Elite you haven't thrown the baby out with the bathwater, you've thrown out the Baby, the Bath, the water, the taps to deliver the water and everything back to the whole interconnected weather system that causes it to rain in the first place.