The reason this server doesn't and never will have a legit actual war is because it's not balanced. Mages level too easily and it will never maintain an uptime of over 3 months (usually takes around 3 months to spark a real war not known teams battling here and there). The mages level fast and random pk, I witness it personally on EVERY mid rate that opens. There are ALWAYS the same things that occur. A handful of actual good old school pvpers (doesn't mean they played back in real 7.4, they pay their dues and I recognize their names as does everyone on this forum) start and pg mages because let's face it, when you aren't planning a real war why play anything besides a mage? When all else fails you have the solo potential to pk.. But back on topic, the few good pvpers end up battling each other then cry that everyone rpgs and won't war, retires, comes back after the rpgers become char lovers and become rich and high lvls and expect a war, but they become char lovers and won't fight because they don't wana die, then server dies for a couple of weeks and boom reset.
If you want a real legit war with real legit penalties for dying and real strategy you are going to have to play on a low rate. But nobody has fucking time to invest months into a low rate when they click the websites of the only two that people trust nowadays (Tibianic and Original Tibia) and see the complete opposite sides of the spectrum, both resulting in fuck this no point in starting -- One has lvl 200's on 7.4 and years worth of botted runes, gold, and rares gone unpunished -- And the other has what 5? 10? people online.
And no disrespect to Ryan, Iryont, or Fribben. Just the truth really.