Yeah, because everyone in Gemstone roleplays...
This is Gemstone, remember? You'll have one brigade of roleplay enforcers, and eight little hit squads that bully them. The only thing stopping these cunts from being extra cunty in general are the GMs and GHs. Strip away actual authority, and a great idea turns into shit.
I would -love- a CvC environment where the player population could simply police themselves. With the level of ignorance and stupidity that flows in this game's community, however, I don't see that happening. The mere fact that most of said primarily ignorant and stupid cunts just so happen to be the lifeless assholes that sit around all day being cuntish to begin with, and you can more or less kiss your fun goodbye if you actually care to give Shattered a shot.
It'll be like going into Platinum on your first day of the free Platinum trial, and dying. The only difference is, they'll neglect you in general, while folks in shattered will simply kill you THEN neglect you.
As I said... have fun with that.
Death is depressing; AestheticLife in 2012!