I like the concept and I understand what they are trying to do.  But it is annoying as hell.  I for one am on a pve server if I wanted all out pvp warfare I would log on a pvp server.  But with that said it is very easy to avoid.  Stay out of the major cities, and the heavily played areas.  There are tons of areas where there is no sign of zombies so I think they are purposely pushing people out of the major cities for whatever reason I don not know.

And yes playing an alt is just frustrating for now.  What I do is help the low level through instances that aren't frequented and it has been kinda fun.  Stockades is a bust if your setting up just haul ass you may making then again you may not.

Population matters little if it sucks roll randomly on different servers and see what comes of it.

If your asking the question, then you are really unsure if she is the person you want to spend the rest of your time with.  You noticed, I did not say life just time.  Simple, find a gamer girlfriend solves two problems at one time 

That pretty much sums it up.  Lately, I have been looking at a few of the newer ones to peak my pvp interests.  Coming from DAoC, I loved their system.  TOA ruined the game, then when they brought back non TOA servers gladly went back. While I was gone did SWG, what a joke and was in beta for COH. 

Of course Mythic had this bright idea to merge servers so ppl were all over the place spies were rampant when trying to take relics.  And then minotaurs came out it was fun but I was quite done with the whole thing.  Went to WOW, but alil to cartoonie for me. 

So I went back to COH thinking oh they have villains now so there must be good pvp.  I was so wrong the pvp/pve toons are quite different you have to have a build in mind and if your going to do one it almost sucks at the other and the zone defense is dam near nonexistent.  Out of the few that have my interest peaked is AOC, AION, and WAR in that order. 

Really hoping they can give me my fix of a challenge and not have me max a char just so that he/she is laughed at when I try and do battle with the enemy of my people/nation/species

the OP was talking about the Snow King.   And nothing like that has been duplicated.  He would appear in alot of different areas and gave massive exp.

Bear Shaman will be my first character.  I like the heals and the buffing that it offers.  Plus the damage that they can do seems quite nice