huh mechanic? ya lost me on that one.
As to the honor system, they had a post not after launch that caused a huge uproar about it. They changed it from an honor system to rewards. Their reason was that people would pvp for rewards instead of ganking for no rewards. Not understanding for a vast majority of people, griefing is their reward. They do it to create havoc for other people. We were lead to believe an honor system would be in the game, it was stated all throughout beta and even in the manual at purchase I believe, then once we started playing and had our characters to a decent level they changed the plan. No big deal now I am back on another server that gives me the option to pvp when I want to and quest when I want to.
Funny thing is on my normal server I see more actual raids and planned pvp then I did on my pvp server.