Roderick

Ah, I never played any of the ports, just the original on the Dreamcast.

You're misinterpreting what I'm saying.

I suffer from a minor form of social anxiety. When I play, I want to limit my exposure to strangers, because being surrounded by strangers causes me a great deal of stress. When I log into Freedom, I am literally getting tells and blind invites every few minutes. This causes me as much stress as if random people were walking up to me on the street and trying to initiate conversation, ie: a lot. When I play on Victory, I rarely get tells from people outside my friends list, and almost never get blind invites. When I chat on global channels, it's mostly people I know rather than total strangers, even if they're not people I know well.

I don't want a smaller game. I never said or implied that I wanted one. In fact, that wording makes it sound like you're vilifying my opinion to make yours sound more desirable, which isn't a very fair tactic in a debate; my opinion is just as valid as yours.

I want a mix of small and large servers, so that people like me (of which there are a significant number - see the solo vs. teamed Incarnate content debate) can have their small, comfortable servers, while people like you can have their large, find a team any time of day servers. Guess what? That's what we already have.

Short version: While I wouldn't actively oppose it if the devs decided to implement it, I will state my disapproval of the suggestion, because I feel that it would be an unnecessary expenditure of resources. The very quote you posted showed that the devs themselves had not decided that it was worth it. Like they say: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"; look how well that worked for PVP.

Fair enough. After all, they haven't added the Hallows to the game yet. :P

Are you sure you played PSO? Because that's completely wrong. And PSO wasn't an MMO anyways - having a lobby that could only hold 100 people who formed teams of up to 4 and ran instanced missions with no persistent world to interact in really isn't a model which can be applied to a real MMO.

Perhaps you were thinking of one of the sequels to PSO (which I never played), or PSU (which I never played online)?

Either way, while I don't oppose it, I don't support any suggestion that merges the servers in any way - and that is what you're attempting to do. You're merging the playerbase, even if you leave the servers unmerged.

I play on Victory because it's a small server. I've played on Freedom before, and I hate it. Your suggestion would have the potential to turn every server into Freedom, which I personally would not enjoy.

Consider it a small-town mentality. I'd rather stick to the small server, where I know a large number of people, and can still find a team when I want one, rather than a large one where I can either isolate myself from everyone (/hide) or be surrounded by strangers invading my personal space (constant unsolicited /tells and blind invites).

Threat rating doesn't come into play until an enemy can see you. Because a tank has a higher threat than most other ATs, if all other things are equal, most enemies will go after the tank first. His Taunt, aura and gauntlet will make even more things chase him.

However, if the tank is stealthed, and the blaster is not, and that blaster follows too closely on the tank's heels, the enemies will see the blaster before the tank, and before the tank is close enough for his aggro holding tools to help him.

In other words, a stealthed tank can hold aggro just as well as a non-stealthed one, but he may not do as well at protecting his teammates from alphas, especially if those teammates are dumb.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Limits...and_Perception

You'd be well under the Stealth cap - three stealths would put you at about 90-100' stealth.

However, any two stealth effects or one invisibility will put you at 60-70', which will stop any enemy that doesn't have +perception or immunity to stealth from seeing you.

Note that, contrary to the power descriptions, AoE stealths like Steamy Mist will stack with stealths like Cloaking Device or power pool Stealth. You cannot turn on both at the same time, because the toggles are flagged exclusive, but ig you are running one of the personal stealth powers, and an ally with Steamy Mist stands beside you, you will benefit from both.

Not necessarily. If you buy a basic copy of CoH without Going Rogue, Praetorian isn't even an option, and you can start in the Hero or Villain zones on the first character. But as you said, it's easy enough to get around that restriction anyways.

Yes, however in cases like parents opening one account for themselves, and sharing with a kid, or making both kids share one account or such, the GMs/mods tend to look the other way.

Indeed. I disagree quite strongly with the OP, but that's fine. I feel the same way about PVP as he does about rent, so I stay out of the arena. It's all good as long as you enjoy yourself, and don't spoil anyone else's fun.
I'm more than happy with paying a pittance for rent; it's better than having to try to scrape together massive amounts of prestige to avoid having my base locked (I run a two-man SG with my girlfriend on each side of the game, earning enough to pay rent was sometimes tricky, especially since we've usually had the biggest plot we could afford).

That would be awesome. Another option I'd be happy with would be an auxillary control device that automatically pays rent for you. Since it autopays, you'd be paying rent every 2 weeks, whereas manual payments can be spaced out every 6 weeks; such is the price of convenience. When the device pays rent, it can send a tell to the Super Leader informing them (kinda like the "too busy" tells from the market), and if the SL is offline, have it notify them on their next login.

Enhancements with a recharge component, when slotted into a pet power, enhance the recharge time of the power that summons the pets, but has no effect on the pets them selves.

Not exactly. It doesn't matter what the IO enhances, it matters what type of set it is. An Acc/Dam/End IO from a Knockback set will do absolutely nothing if the pet uses a power that has no knockback component. Likewise, a damage proc from a ToHit Debuff set will never fire from a pet's power that has no ToHit Debuff on it.

Common IOs, SOs, and Hami-Os work like you guessed - a Damage/Range Hami slotted in a pet would use the Damage portion and ignore the Range portion if the pet used a melee attack.

I said rolls. Drops follow different rules.

If you're talking about the lag they create, I thought it was because there was 50 bajillion of 'em, and they all wear capes?