To answer a few questions:
When the game returns:
I have tweaked all my builds for now not to include purples or pvp IOs (Got some great builds actually). So I will start on my main (Fire/Time/Power) Corruptor and then on a farmer. Then of course I need to focus on my alts:
Earth/Psi/Psi Dom
Earth/Kin Controller
AR/Traps Corruptor
Elect/Inv Scrapper
Empathy/Fire Defender
Illusion/Rad Controller
Inv/Elect Tank
Martial Arts/Elect Stalker
Fire/Devices Blaster
I also need to get my solo SG up and going (So I will have two accounts again to make that easier). I ran a HUGE SG on Freedom for 3 years but gave it up because it was like a job and I didn't play CoH to feel like I was working LOL. I loved being able to have my own SG...store all my pretties without any fear of anyone getting them etc.
I need to reserve all the names I have in mind. Before I had a theme for my names... they were all "I **did something**" such as : I Burnt The Toast, I Drive Stick, I Wet The Bad, I'm Gonna Rock You, I Forgot My Prozac, etc etc... now I plan on doing a play on people (famous people) names like: Florence Nightingail (Storm/Dark Defender)... No I am not using that... all my toons will be male toons.
I plan on taking a few days off work when it does return. Also when they announce the games return I plan on buying a new PC that will be just for CoH. All I use now are laptops none of which would be any good at gaming.
As for playing with high people... One of my best friends in game for 5 years was a known pot head...he was really good at the game; especially when high LOL and a lot of fun. A group of friends and I used to hang out in Pocket D and play a drinking game...and once we were all tipsy...lead trials. We used to have some pretty late night drinking sessions...they were very fun...