The_Alt_oholic

Since no one has brought it up. Justice and Infinity have been juggling the 3rd and 4th highest server load slots for a good while now.
Justice unofficial Oceanic server - some say it is the unofficial PvP server as well
Infinity is the unofficial PvP server as far as I now.

If you came here during the AE hayday and are just looking for population - stay on Freedom or try Virtue out. If you want to branch out and really explore being a super, then make a character on every server on both sides and see what you find. Each server had a different feel and they are all worth checking out for their individual reasons.

Against allowing multiple characters on the same server from having the same name.
While at first this looks like a great thing, it in reality is a horrible idea.
The flavor of the month name will be running along side the powerset of the month.
Really. Just like search-fu, there is a skill and set configurations that can make it easy to find a name for a character that is unique and fits the feeling that you are going for. There have been posts on this subject many times..probably since Issue 2 if not before.
I can go into the game and pick a name that I would swear would have been taken by now quite easily. I do it from time to time for the sheer fact that it proves all the great names have not been taken.

I do understand that some people find it hard to find a name, and that is why that I will stand behind the idea of a random name generator that takes such things as the characters costume colors and powerset into account when randomly generating names and checking them against the current name list before suggesting them to players.

I'm against this.
There is generally enough in game discrimination as it is.

If this goes live, I ask the Dev teams to set up a "must have Taunt" team setting for Tanks.

Out of hand!

Knockback isn't horrible. Like any other power/power-effect, it just needs to be used wisely.
Ummm... maybe like melee characters not chasing after enemies into other mobs...

Hey, it seems like your problem is really with melee characters chasing enemies into other mobs...

How many days ago did you open your trial?

Heck. I'll take a swing at this.

Subscription Fees
Pay a subscription for an on-going game or pay for a game that has a limited life expectancy.
In CoH you not only play for the longevity of the game, but also for improvements to the game system. Some other games make you pay more for these "expansions"; you know those things we call "issues" that we get for free.
If you pay for a game that has no subscription fee, you may bet updates for bugs, but it is highly unlikely that you will get any additional content during the length of the game. Instead, get ready to pay for "Game-with-no-subscription-fee 2".


Agro
Are you kidding me?
What game doesn't have enemies attack you when they see you?
Is it some how not obvious that people that see you will attack you?
Of course, you are going to try to avoid them if you can.
Hide-and-go seek is all about Agro. If you aren't "it", you know what agro is like once "it" see you.

As far as agro and group dynamics go...
It makes obvious sense from a PC point of view to go after the most dangerous target first. Why go after the heavily armored Tank if you can take down the blaster quickly?
Strategically, there is no reason not to do so.
Obviously, when I'm battling the enemy I take down the most powerful attackers and the support units (buffers, debuffers, healers, etc.) first.
Why don't the enemies do this?
Obviously, this is a literary license that extends into the world of gaming.
It's about the "role" playing.
Some people just want to be a big hulking Tank, but the point of a Tank/Brick, etc. in a game is to defend the weaker team mates. And this is one reason that this kind of character is given more armor/resistance/survivability than the other character classes in a game.
By-and-large, outside of a Taunt, the character that does the most damage is the one that pulls the agro. We all know that characters that do AoE damage tend to draw a lot of agro. So really, it's just the matter of a Tank using Taunt that will really make the difference in drawing agro away form other characters (Gauntlet/punch-provoke is minor when compared to Taunt).
Wthout the Tank (and the related mechanics), the enemies would behave in a more "rational" manner. So I guess the solution to this agro issue (I don't think there is one) appears to be getting rid of Tanks and presence attacks. There is no reason to give Tanks extra armor if they aren't defending anyone; if they aren't defending the team then they are just highly-armor scrappers.

Button Lock
In most MMORPGs, you are going to have to wait for your powers to recharge. This is a mechanic in place so that all players are restricted to the same playing field even though they are playing on vastly different computer systems and internet connections.
Regardless of how fast your computer is, your powers recharge in the same amount of time as mine do if I have a slower connection.
This is a good thing for play balance. It is a negative for the rich and uber tech'd.
Just because you can mash a button faster or your auto-fire switch is triggering your attack every 10th of a second doesn't mean that your character really should be able to attack that quickly.
PC gamers are playing on all kinds of different computers and over connections of varying speeds. While playing the delay seems minimal in most cases, but there is delay from when you hit a button to when the power goes off in the game, to when the enemy (Pve or PvP) takes the damage from the attack.
I feel that the current recharging-time for powers is a good idea for play balance in order to allow for a larger player base.

Static Worlds
I once hear of a virtual world where the world was created to work like the real world. Resources grew and the players needed to use these resources in order to create what they needed in order to survive in the game. The world was quickly deforested and there was no new growth of trees since all the trees had been destroyed.
I hate to quote the Statesman, but - I think it was him - he said something like - if we made the City destructible, there probably wouldn't be anything standing after an hour or two.
There are two main problems with destructible environments; keeping track of what is destroyed and leaving an environment for players to game in.
Any of us that have played in the City over the years know that the City is not static, the world does change.
Each Issue bring with it changes to the world. But this is all DEV based change.
Player based change is more subtle. You may not think that you are having a lasting effect on game play by triggering Rikti invasions or a Zombie Apocalypse, but you are. You see, it has an effect on the most fluid part of the whole MMORPG - the players. When you bring a character into the game you are changing the world, you change who other players can interact with (you weren't there before you logged in, and neither were they). When you trigger an event to happen, you are causing something to happen that other players can participate in that wouldn't have happened otherwise. Of course, many characters will get xp from these events and having characters progress in levels definitely changes their impact up on the world.
The World may seem static, but that is because it is the rock that the ocean of players washes over. And if the DEVs are good enough, they are watching the trends of player behavior and are molding the advances in the World based on player behavior.
I'm not even going to go into markets and how fluid they are - but, there again, the players are making the majority of the change happen.
I'm not going to argue that some more mutable aspects to the environment would be cool (I don't see a huge rush to the villain side here in order to run mayhem missions, so maybe it isn't as a popular of an idea as some would think). It would make checking out another server a whole different experience as each one would be different based on the characters actions on each server. But then it already is like that to some extent because the volume and type of players on each server gives each their own flavor.

You can't play with the people you want to play with
Obviously, this is no longer a problem for the many in CoH.
For me, it was never much of a problem in the first place. The old sk'ing system is more than most games have. And, if someone really wanted to game with me, we could always bring in some new characters.
I certainly don't have a problem logging into the same server as my friends. I know that can be a problem on some other games.
In game with wide reaching levels and no sk'ing system, it is always really a matter or the higher level characters not wanting to "slum it" with the lower level characters, and there is always sense that it really isn't worth the effort to drag along lower level characters into higher-level adventures because they would be defeated too easily (even while making their way slowly at their low-level speed toward the mission). Or maybe, it was just a matter of it wasn't worth the hassle to figure out a way to play with "the people you want to play with"...or maybe they weren't really "the people you want to play with" or you weren't "the person they wanted to play with" in the first place.
CoH has solved the mechanics problem. Now it really is a matter of who you do or don't want to game with on whatever basis you choose.