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1) Not exactly. There are some high-level only TFs, but the point of the game isn't to rush to the cap and then start playing.
2) In my opinion, we have a very friendly, intelligent and mature community for the most part.
3) 130k or so? Not aberrant-big, a very respectable number for any MMO.
4) Without knowing exactly what you mean by "in-depth", I'm going to say "very". There's a lot to do, and a lot of different ways to do it. One of CoH's strengths is that there isn't just one right way to do things.
5) Most of the stuff is there all the way to the level cap. Once you hit it, you can still play it all, but there's comparitively little benefit to getting to 50 for 50's sake. There are players, missions, arcs and task forces all the way up...in this game, it's about the journey, not the destination.

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If you're really worried about it, you can bring a team with you in test mode and have them go over it...otherwise, publish, set the status as Work in Progress and ask for feedback. Send me an arc number; I'd be happy to break out my fine-toothed comb for you.

Yeah, a Panicky Civilian option that you could apply to any map would be great, but in the mean time, I'd be satisfied with one or two.

Next up, which is better: springy clothespins or that other kind?

If slots are tight, I usually take Sting for the slightly harder hit, and skip Gambler's Cut (Divine Avalanche does the same damage as Gambler's Cut with the added benefit of pure awesomeness).

You don't need it, but you may want the unsurpressed movement of Swift/Hurdle and/or the additional +regen from Health. Quick Recovery is more potent than Stamina, so you could skip Stamina if you like, but I often (eventually) take both.

I've looked, but so far no luck.

No thank you. I like to feel a sense of progression, and struggling to defeat pursesnatchers at level 50 wouldn't provide it. The universal conning system is great for GMs and Rikti/zombie invasions, but honestly, shouldn't you, at some point, just completely outclass some foes?

IR is a superior version of Super Jump, not Combat Jumping (or Super Jump + Combat Jumping), so this is not an apples to apples comparison. That said, some Immob resist would not be out of line thematically or in terms of balance.

The oldest official content? Sure. But the newer content (from CoV on up, for the most part) learned those lessons and adapted. The Faultline arcs and Croatoa are more representative of what official content is now. The older stuff is still available for play, of course, because why would you take completed content out?

Random roll is random. My Bronze roll random number generator has a penchant for Bone Snaps and Air Bursts...the Regen Tissue unique is cause for a happy dance.

Fixing the Bronze and Silver rolls should be easy enough; just count all of the uncommons five times and the rares once when you determine the percentages (the rares are marked on the wiki). The Gold will be harder, though, since it's less clear exactly how they're weighted.

Go into the My Enemy Groups tab, click Edit on the group you want to rename, click Save As and give it the name you want to have. Then delete the old group.

The distribution isn't as simple as dividing by the number of recipes available at a given level; some recipes are rarer than others (5:1 uncommon:rare ratio by player testing, according to the wiki), and the Gold/Rare rolls are said to be weighted by usefulness (more commonly used IO types drop more often).

The Siphon Speed buff is only for you. Lets you keep up with your Speed Boosted teammates.

I don't think they need to be removed; every superbeing has an origin, and it's OK to get players thinking about how their characters came to be. But origin should remain (almost) entirely irrelevant from a gameplay perspective...otherwise, pigeonholing, min/maxing, earthquakes, famine...you get the idea.

Yeah! Make them Schedule B, give them something to complain about!

Not necessarily...if the name was added to the off-limits list after you created the character on Justice, you wouldn't lose the name on Justice (until/unless someone petitioned you), but you'd be prevented from using it later on other servers.

Edit: but I see no reason why that name would be off-limits...someone probably does have it.

It's certainly not without precedent in comics, and since it's (almost) entirely for flavor, why not?

I like it.

IO set bonuses provide a means for any character to increase regeneration and/or recovery rates; between that, the sets that have recovery powers, end mod enhancements, Stamina, and plain old endurance management, I think the field is pretty well covered. Stamina has always been a nice-to-have, but never mandatory.