Adeon Hawkwood

That shouldn't be an issue. You might be a bit slow against enemies with highish energy resistance but pretty much any content can be done with single AT teams if necessary, and honestly, buff/debuff sets are so good if you stack at least a couple of controllers with a suitable selection of sets the similarity of other sets won't matter much.

Not at all. You stated that you plan to leave the moment you find an MMO with decent PvP. That sounds like a pretty solid statement that you do not like the PvP of ANY MMO currently on the market.

Ok, that makes sense to me.

This varies a lot between characters. Some characters do have spare slots but are power choice limited (for example my AR/Dev blaster has a full Trap of the Hunter in Web Grenade because the Ranged Defense bonus was the most useful thing I could so with those slots).

Even if you don't have the slots to spare there are lots of potentially useful powers that don't need slotting.
1. Travel Powers (if you skipped one before)
2. Any passives in your Armor set you didn't have room for
3. The rez power in your Support set if you skipped it
4. A single target mez (stick an Endoplasm Exposure or even just a generic accuracy and you can reasonably reliably mez an LT for a few seconds if you need to).
6. Leadership toggles, Assault in particular doesn't really benefit from slots
7. Recall Friend
8. Combat Jumping (a small defense boost that requires virtually no endurance to run plus can take quite a few useful globals/procs in the default slot)
9. Stealth Pool (or Maneuvers) as a LotG mule
10. A Snipe. These have a base accuracy of 1.2 so even with just a level 50 damage IO it can be ok as an opening move. It'll do almost as much damage as your 12 second recharge blast so it's basically a little extra burst damage at the start of combat.
11. Fighting Pool. Ok, it's not great unslotted but if you've got the endurance to run it you're still tougher than you were before.

Personally I'm hoping this change will encourage more people to take Leadership powers. Individually they are weak but when you stack them 8 deep those bonuses add up.

*spoiler warning (although I think this is something the vast majority of people know)*

Actually all Rikti are Mutated Humans from another dimension although there is some argument whether this counts as Science or Mutation since the process was at least partly of artificial oriign.

Traps is an excellent solo set for all ATs that have it. Masterminds are probably the best but Defenders/Corruptors both solo very well with it. There isn't a huge difference between the two with the new Vigilance so D'd recommend a Defender over a Corruptor for soloing since the extra Defense from FFG makes a big difference.

You are correct, I just checked Phantasms, Dark Servants and Auto-Turrets. All have a base to hit of 75%.

Ok, this makes no sense to me. There are a lot of MMOs on the market most of which have some form of PvP. The fact that you claim to be waiting here until you find one an MMO with good PvP implies that of all of the MMOs on the market CoX has the best PvP.

Nope, the name is always the thing I think of last and with a few exceptions I tend to end up picking a first name and then stringing together random syllables until I get a surname I like. I tend to make characters based on powerset combos i want to try rather than theme.

Doesn't mean they can't rework the arcs to bring them up to the quality of the new ones and then put the old ones in Ouro. Personally I see this as a issue of manpower rather than anything else. Most people prefer to work on their own ideas rather than redo someone else so the devs are naturally going to prefer making new content over revamping old content. Personally I would love to see them do a "quick fix" pass through the older story arcs, not changing the dialogue or missions but limiting the zone choices a bit to reduce travel time, reducing the number of kills required in hunt missions and (if possible) changing the objectives on at least some of the "kill all" missions to "kill boss" or "find glowie" (I don't mind the occasional "kill all" but I think the older story arcs have to many of them). That would make the older story arcs a lot more fun to run without needing a complete rewrite.

*cough* WoW *cough*. WoW is (probably) the largest MMO out there, it allows you to compeltely redo your interface and I am sure that there are lots of people constantly looking for ways to hack it (such as the gold selling sites) yet it doesn't seem to be an issue. A properly designed API would not be a security hole and would allow people a high degree of customization if they wanted it.

That being said it's still not really the sort of thing we need in CoX. From a practical point of view adding the capability now would be a heck of a lot of effort compared to building the capability in when the game was first designed. Secondly it isn't really needed, the basic interface is pretty functional and a lot of the things WoW addons provide are not not particularly relevant to CoX (like threat meters, boss warnings etc.).

I would quite like to see increased macro functionality (specifically the ability to make a macro button that shows the icon and recharge status for a regular power instead of a gray circle) but i don't think a full API is a necessity for this game.

Then they will have to either slice some slots from other powers or manage with just the default slot. If the devs wanted us to 6-slot every power they would have given us sufficient slots to do so. Part of building a character is learning to compromise, you can't have all of the slots you want and you can't have all of the powers you want. The Stamina change gives us three more power choices and the default slot with them which is enough of an upgrade. Some characters already have enough powers but are short on slots, they will probably use the power choices for the little utility power that doesn't need slots or take powers that can use a global IO. Other people have spare slots (for example my AR/Dev has 6-slotted Trap of the Hunter in Web Grenade since it was the most useful thing to do with those slots) and will be able to add extra slots to their new powers.

Heck even with your example of taking an extra attack, don't underestimate the value of an attack with only one or two slots. Consider an attack with just a Nucleolus Exposure in the default slot. It'll still do about 68% of the damage of an ED capped attack and have 1 SO of accuracy. It's not an optimal choice for an attack chain but if you're got gaps and can spare the endurance it could be handy as a filler attack. Add a second slot with a Dam/End IO and it's doing 80% of it's ED capped damage and gets a bit of endurance reduction (or recharge if you have lots of recovery). People 5/6-slot attacks to increase the secondary benefits (mainly recharge and endurance usage) or to get set bonuses. An attack with 1, 2 or 3 slots is still pretty effective (especially if you frankenslot rather than using generics).

Unless the zombies figure out how to merge with the robots and we end up with a Zombie Cyborg Apocalypse.

Personally I don't see Player housing as being an effective Inf Sink. In general there are two types of Inf sinks in games. The first are the small everyday fees that everybody pays and thus suck small amounts of cash from everybody. In CoX this role is filled primarily by the market fees (and to a lesser extend by SO vendors and crafting fees). The second is the really expensive "prestige" item that is only available to a small portion of the population and is mostly used for bragging rights.

Making player housing a "prestige" inf sink strikes me as way to much development effort for something only a small portion of the population would use and if you make it accessible to everyone it loses most of the benefit as an Inf sink. What price level would you select? To make a decent inf sink you'd probably need the total cost to be in the 100 million range (or even more) but to people who don't play their 50s or marketeer a lot that price is going to be very steep.

The other issue is that player housing is not a great prestige item anyway, it's something you show off to friends but not visible to the player who sees you in the street. I don't think that there is enough overlap between "people with lots of spare inf" and "people who want to be an interior designer" for it to be effective as an inf sink.

I guess. I tend to think of the ID string as being the "name" of the power with the human readable text serving as a translation convienience, but I'm weird that way.

Considering that the graphics engine just got a face lift I can't see them scrapping the existing engine quite so soon.

The name of the set bonus is the power it applies. Having the set adds a bonus power to your powers list (fortunately it only shows up in the info window), "set bonus" is simply a generic term for this power. In other words Set Bonus = Set Power. So saying "you can only have 5 set bonuses with the same name" means exactly the same thing as "you can only have 5 instances of a set power active at once". I'm honestly not quite sure why you're making this distinction anyway since it's a purely semantic distinction that doesn't really affect anything.

Moderately similar situation for me. I play with a group of boardgamers (general boardgames not RPGs) who are all quite a bit older than me.