What is to prevent higher level people from camping newbie areas and killing them for sport?
Several factors. First, there are severe faction hits to attacking other players that are members of non-warring factions. Of course, if the two adversaries are from enemy factions, then there is no issue. Second, you can only gain experience for attacking a specific player character once in a certain amount of time. So killing the same unfortunate person over and over will not gain you much. Third, there are many NPC guards that roam around, especially near newbie areas. These guards will defend you and will be able to overpower most other players. Fourth, there is not the usual disparity between low and high level characters in Twilight War. Yes, a more experienced character may be able to take and deal more damage, and his equipment may be much better than someone with lower experience, but it is still dangerous to fight other players. A lower experienced character can take down a higher experienced one in some circumstances, especially when the higher experienced player is outnumbe