PvP without consent is GRIEFING!   In real life it's called MURDER.

Lets cut through all the bias and BS and self-serving hand wringing and look at the reality.

Killing my character and destroying my wagon whilst training horses and trading is NOT PvP. It is a pathetic act by sad little morons who RUIN the game for hundreds of thousands if not millions of players, MOST of whom no longer bother to play BDO.

I am only just clinging to this game now because of the PvE in Season Servers. If PA have ANY intention of keeping BDO alive they need to provide the ENJOYABLE game the majority of us want.

PS  Save the vitriolic toxic replies these forums always spew up. I really don't give a toss for your puerile abuse.

Pearl Abyss refers to BDO as a PvP game. (as recently as this websites FAQ)

If you are afk horse training, do it in a safe zone. If your not afk, you would easily see the person flag up and be able to "v" away. Or just be able to outrun them. 99% of the time they would just knock you off and not kill you. If they kill you most likely its from a Guild dec. 

The developers want this to be a pvpve game and thats how they designed it. Olvia and season servers are a way for people to be eased into the game. Theres plenty of other games out there with similiar lifeskill mechanics, and those are of the nonafk kind. Choose and play a game the suits you and fits your playstyle, dont try to get a game to change because you dont like the core mechanics of how it was designed. 

Not anymore they do if you'v read there recent post on korean forums as they are realizing the majority player base now favors PVE. and the stats don't lie. hence why they are adding more PVE Elements from mmo's...

But yes OP they need to be added. and likely will now given they got full control.

Just stay at level 49 and only lifeskill. Simple.

You cant be sure that BDO will survive. Other games did not. And those other games had grind spots that can manage many people. BDO dont. Yet one PvE server with restrictions wont change the game probably, but none will be happy with one server.

And yea, many people want to keep the game the way it is, including the devs. So far.

Answer this for me since you seem to have all the answers:

"So if someone is grinding a solo grind spot, like Star's End, minding their own business and a guildless player starts to hit mobs in that rotation -- while the guildless person literally ignores any form of polite, non-toxic verbal communication -- What is the the first person who was there supposed to do? 

Leave the solo spot since someone else came along?  Then why won't you leave when you get PK'd?  Party up and share?  Solo spots are solo spots for a reason -- partying up negatively affects EXP and silver income, so partying up with a random stranger is not viable in SOLO spots, because both time and money are wasted by partying in a SOLO grind spot.

So what do I do in this situation?"

Those who want PvE only server say all the time things like "Why do I need to leave if someone PK's me while grinding".  Well, there is a flip side to that -- "Why do I need to leave if someone starts grinding in the solo rotation I was at first?"  For the most part, I'm fine with it, if someone is messing with me like this, I am NOT AFRAID to defend myself and feed them to mobs.  I don't mess with people in-game.  So would much rather not to be messed with too, but it happens.  So you have to be ready.  And to me, that aspect is one thing that makes BDO magical.  You don't know if the white dot on your minimap is friendly or foe, and this element of mystery and excitement lend to the overall enojyment of the game -- we just need better in-game rules / systems to prevent truly toxic behavior, because currently, they can be exploited.

This has actually happened to me a few times while solo grinding in solo grind areas.  I'm minding my business and being as polite and cordial as I can be to others, but I'm the one who gets shafted.  IMO, this is JUST AS TOXIC as someone who will wrecklessly PK in grind areas -- like you PvE only people say, "no one owns a spot", right?  So what makes you think you can roll up in an OCCUPIED SOLO grind spot and expect it to be peaches and sunshine?  Both PK and messing up an occupied rotation both negatively impacts time and money.  You don't mess with my time or my money.

OW PvP can be improved by better laws, a better system to protect non-PvPers and better systems to protect people from being Karma Bombed.  Karma Bombing is a problem, just like toxic PK, and both issues need to be addressed, while maintaining the integrity of this sandbox-y, open world, PVX MMORPG. 

I think reworking the game-world's "Laws" will help.  Like instant red if you PK someone AFK horse riding to a destination, for example.  And an increasing respawn timer for those that get killed by the same person.  IE: Die once to me, no respawn timer.  Die twice, timer is 2 mins.  3 times, 7 minutes.  4 times, 20 minutes, and so on.  This should help prevent Karma Bombing.

I think PvE channel with 10-20% lifeskill buff would fix a lot of things for the PvP community as well. 

Let the lifeskillers lag a dedicated channel and grind on top of each other.