Yeah weapons aren't balanced yet, although so far AoP is the most balanced server I've seen. Too many gheys staying inside their base carebearing and doing assigs repeatedly so they can stroke their gold piles in a stereotypically jewish way instead of going on ZC or PvP hunts with the cool people.
Problem is, we need more content inside Phoenix that makes people leave base for anything other than naked core runs or ZC. What really dampens small scale PvP is the lack of setups for it aside from the obvious PvP hunts and gate camping. I don't think characters got too many resists either, get a better weapon. Wot mate? I see small scale pvp most of the time, in Family there's almost always someone going on hunts against other factions.