Virtual? Yes. Pretend? Certainly not.

And no, they don't, and I don't think PvPers should punish RPers either. I actually like the current raid system to be honest, certainly an improvement over that war declaration system beforehand, though that's probably just me, since I don't raid nearly as much as most of the people that have an issue with it. I was mostly just saying how having RPers and PvPers in the same faction world will always prevent PvP in the factions world from being as good as it normally would be, which is unfortunate for a factions server.