I'm pretty sure there were no hostile servers in beta. You could go to the archives to pvp but that was it.
and in that great big lump of text I disagree. Hostile servers make you pvp a lot more and i have no doubt that the truly dedicated pvpers on vector could wipe the floor with the pvpers on other worlds. You asked a machine who said he rolled 250 - he wasn't the cream. The cream on vector are the people I attack with the knowledge that if I do one thing wrong they will obliterate me.