..Ankh just pointed me to this thread over steam and the first thing I want to say is, I'm far too amused I'm now a unit of measurement (Don't try to use it to measure distance, you'll end up warping spacetime) and found your analysis to be quite hysterical. I will admit it took me a very long time to Tweak Terrence to the point where I was quite satisfied with how he worked in missions, mainly because I didn't use mids for him and just kinda went by how things felt during gameplay..ignore the fact I had multiple T4 incarnate powers of each category simply because I liked being able to swap them to deal with any situation. Admittedly I loved that versatility that came with being able to swap incarnate powers which was why I kept throwing myself at trials despite how much my social anxiety made me stress to run em.
Now on the other hand unlike what it seems for STO it was actually getting really fast (in comparison) to gear up subsequent characters in purples and T4 incarnate abilities once I had Terr done to my likeing, I could get most of my IO'ing done in a couple days depending on the AH and the fat stack of Merits/Hero merits I had laying around from running tips so often with folks and one could rack up incarnate powers fast if you seriously went at trials for a week if that. So from my own personal experience once you had a character at cap and tricked out it was -much- easier to bring others up to that level..sadly I can't say I have nearly enough experience with STO to say anythin else.
Now on the other hand unlike what it seems for STO it was actually getting really fast (in comparison) to gear up subsequent characters in purples and T4 incarnate abilities once I had Terr done to my likeing, I could get most of my IO'ing done in a couple days depending on the AH and the fat stack of Merits/Hero merits I had laying around from running tips so often with folks and one could rack up incarnate powers fast if you seriously went at trials for a week if that. So from my own personal experience once you had a character at cap and tricked out it was -much- easier to bring others up to that level..sadly I can't say I have nearly enough experience with STO to say anythin else.