JD_Gumby

It all depends on which bonus item pack you want to get since the access to the game you get is otherwise the same.

Good vs Evil comes with two unique costumes (Justice and Sinister), the Pocket D VIP Pass (a teleport power that sends you to a room in Pocket D, a convenient transit point to several zones on each side, which contains a Tailor that only VIP members can access), and the Jump Pack (which gives you basically unlimited height jumping for 30 seconds, with a recharge of 3 minutes - very useful when you don't have a travel power that gives you vertical movement).

The Architect Edition gives you a choice of either the Cyborg booster pack (contains the costume, a few /emotes, combat aura costume parts, and the Self Destruct power that does massive damage to anything around you and doesn't give you XP debt when you die - a great last-ditch ability) or the [url="http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Super_Booster_II:_Magic"]Magic booster pack[/b] (contains the costume, costume change emotes, and the Mystic Fortune power to randomly buff people with).

All of the goodie packs from the various boxed editions (including the Mac Special Edition - you don't need a Mac to get it), of course, can be bought from the online store separately, which main edition you pick to start with really won't make too much difference. That said, I'd personally go for the Good versus Evil - the Justice costume is one of my favorites (and Sinister's pretty good, too, as long as you pick the right colors), and I couldn't live without the Jump Pack or Pocket D VIP Pass. Then again, that's the edition I started with, so I'm probably biased...

Stealth while on and for 120 seconds after the toggle's turned off.

Except, of course, for the constant clicking, being useless if you're in an area without enemies, and opening yourself up to a potshot from at least your target. Nah, give me a real travel power any day.

Nah. Their brains aren't asleep, they just get encased in Granite Armor when the determination of a powerset's worth has been made, and they usually refuse to detoggle until the devs have done some tweaking of the powers.

Yes. When Superior Invisibility is unsupressed, you get +4.50% Def(ALL). When it's supressed, you get +2.25% Def(ALL). (both numbers get Enhanced, so you always lose half of SI's Def - same as any supressed Stealth power)

*pokes the sore spot* Yeah, when I first fired up a VEAT, I was expecting a storyline from 1-50 about your rise through the ranks. Of course, my disappointment was great when I found out that there's like 2 missions per contact and that the first ones, anyways, are just there to give you an excuse to do the exact same missions as the non-VEATs, even though it makes absolutely no sense...

A nice, duty-focused storyline would have been great, as would a fix that would have Arachnos foes on the street not be aggroed, unless attacked, by you or any of your party members within a certain radius (ie, the rest of the party is in the VEAT's custody, for whatever reason; anyone outside of the radius is fair game, and anyone within the same radius as the party member who attacks also becomes fair game) for when you bypass the storyline and team with other players (inside missions aggro would work as normal).

What ones are those? Admittedly, I've only played to L36 redside, but so far the only evil I seem to have done has been turning a young hero to the dark side. The rest has been petty street crime and bank robberies - and most of it is against other villain groups ("Hey, the Hellions have stolen the Uberweapon again. Might as well go take it from them.")

Sure, there's a fair bit of textual "Since you did X, Y and Z, this evil happened", but virtually nothing that you actively DO could be counted as supervillainy...

Yes, but glowy bits on monsters can be seen through the Dark Astoria fog to almost the very edge of the un-fogged character rendering range (as controlled by the Character Detail slider, IIRC; and on the graveyard outdoor map(s?) - for example, last night on the graveyard map, I could see Baphomet opposite me on the other side of the chasm because of his glow, even though I couldn't even see the island in the middle).

And it also happens with every other archetype and at all levels and zones. People rarely take people who LFT for anything in Global, instead (whether they specifically say so or not) expecting you to whisper them (politely and with AT, level, and primary & secondary power sets) to ask for the invite. The exception tends to be during invasion events and for the nastier GMs.

Nah. It's more an expectation thing. Stalkers are basically like Rogues from WoW and other MMOs that allow that sort of character. They are therefore assumed to attract the same sort of people - the type who, depending on the exact game (not all of which can apply here, of course) love to stealth-gank other players in PvP and then "trash talk"** them, kill-steal, "scout ahead" rather than fight, ninja loot, and generally not have a clue how to cooperate in a team setting (especially in games where you can solo much of the content). This, obviously, leads to pre-judging of any Stalker who you don't actually know from other characters.

** We had another name for that sort of thing in my day, back when good sportsmanship was a virtue instead of being seen as a sign of wussiness. We called it "being a jerk", though with far stronger language.

The real reward of those FedExes for me has always been the contact you get...

You answered your own question, really - you're not going to be in melee range often enough to make it worthwhile.