BBQ_Pork

Here's one: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...t=server+merge
Got it by clicking "Search", typing in "Server Merge" and hitting "Go".
Not sure why the Search function isn't working for you.

BONUS!!: Memphis_Bill's famous Cut-n'-paste is in there on page 1.
Yeah, you're operating off of paranoia.
The Supreme Leader thing is much ado about nothing if he/she simply gives the same permissions to the next tier below.

The free server transfers was a gift for the holidays.

Putting the two together like this comes across as a huge leap and an attempt to stir the pot over nothing.

And if servers would be merged, why would the SG's need to be split? If everyone on Closing-Server is going to be tossed onto Designated-Recipient-Server, then this would just be unneeded chaos, further sabotaging the game.
I don't know what people think of the Devs sometimes, but I'm pretty sure that they don't sit around all day wondering "Hmmm.......what can I do to stop my paychecks from coming in...?"

Some folks prefer New York, some prefer Montana.
The only change I would make would be to change the server selection screen.
Put three little markers on the screen.
Right at the top: "Server you were last on---->"
Second from the top "Server with fewest players online right now--->"
Bottom: "Server with most players online right now---->"

Folks that like being surrounded by other players (at the cost of lagginess, potentially being locked out during special events, etc.) can feel free to do thier own server merge.
Others prefer a less-populated server. And even on what you call a "dead server", there is still teaming. Not that teaming is essential in this game.

Server merges will happen when all of the following criteria are met:
*When subscription numbers sharply plummet.
*When the Devs are willing for large chunks of people to lose thier character and SG names due to multiple people sharing them.
*When the Devs wish to send the signal to the gaming world that you should not come play this game and that it is dying. (And as evidenced by the chart above, it doesn't look dying to me.)

In other words, NO.

Thank you, and Good Day.

Fixed.
Also:
* Paragon Studios announces the hiring of forumite Part_Troll to the position of Public Relations Director.

My confused look.

All they have to do is check thier out-of-game Email and respond to the auto-send form letter with thier next three choices for a name.
They're only "stuck" if they choose to run around with GEneric3453 to try to protest the unfairness (in thier eyes) of being generic'ed.

Let's say that many folks don't know of this policy. How many of them never check thier Email?

Nothing.....until the mission starts looking like a slideshow from having a gazillion things to do at once.
Until then, summon away.

This interests me.
Currently, with none of my AoE-focused, PvE characters do I have a shot at winning any PvP fight against a good PvP-built character played by anyone who knows what they're doing. Yes, I've tried a number of ATs and never succeed. So with PvP recipes in the mix, the only the only thing I have to gain in direct PvP competition is to potentially give the player who is already better equipped than me the tools to be even better against me next time. Further increasing the gap.
So why should I bother wasting my time for no benefit, other than the "Spent 5 hours in this zone" badge, which I can AFK ?

*In a related note: For "Old-School" Veteran Players, Issue 1 Stone Armor animations will return.

Suggestions, based on your original premise?
Have the pet take up a spot on the team roster. That would prevent the amount of pets in a mission from getting too extreme.

This.
My wife was fired from a city job for having a grand total three minutes of non-work internet activity on her login.
Right after she filed for maternity leave, HR started an investigation of her and found nothing, then a general investigation of the department's internet use was done and revealed that most of the employees in her department had done so, and in greater amounts. No others were fired, or even disciplined in any manner.

Yes to this suggestion, in this form or in another, similar form already requested. Perhaps make it an account-wide thing. Run the "introduction" mission once, get a flag on the account where in the future where the contact (I'm looking at you, Lt. "KR->AP->Hollows" Wincott!) just show up in the contact list.
Or just turn them into contacts that drop immediately into the contact list. *starts dreaming*
I can see it now. L40+ Hero sees his Hero Corps representative often enough to tweak his reputation that he has his 'PR agent' on his cell phone's speed dial.
"Hello, Morty? Yeah, I'm looking at busting up some Council. Be sure to put in a word at the Paragon Daily Bugle and with Channel 4 that I'm on a big anti-fascism thing. And have you gotten me any more endorsements yet? I'd like to be more than just the spokesperson for that electric grill and that topical ointment. It's not like spandex chafes that much anyway."
Heck yeah!
Yes. Or just drop the "multiple glowies clicked simultaneously" portion of non-TF missions. Or accept that the mission drop feature will be used for this.
Haven't seen this redside, and the last time I got one offered Blueside, it was labelled in advance, which is an improvement from the old days.
No real opinion. Not opposed, but I don't play Kheldians.
Some of the really old blueside content could really use a re-do. In particular, earlier cell phone access, and having the missions in the same zone as the contact when it makes sense to the arc's storyline.
Some of it has already been tweaked. In the old days, the "Rescue the Fortune Teller" mission was in the deepest part of the Perez maze. Nowadays, it's always at the edge of the forest. Other missions in the zone tend to be in the strip of buildings, when they they used to be in the maze as well.

Anything in particular?
It could use a SF or two and maybe one more zone perhaps, IMO.

This sorta surprises me. I mean, if someone doesn't PvP, what's the point of paying that much for a set that doesn't provide all of it's bonuses in PvE?
Unless it's PvPers that don't want to PvP without getting full sets of the bestest, most top of the line equipment BEFORE they go into the one/arena. But before we got PvP in this game, the proponents of PvP said that they wanted it implemented "for the challenge" of fighting non-AI foes. So going into PvP without a full set of top-tier IOs would be more challenging, wouldn't it?
Yet you don't see "Hey, check out my all-DualOrigin PvP build!" posts..