The Lurkers on Tich

[MongoJerry]

(and really Mongo, I'd expect more from you than namecalling over a preference).

I use the term "carebear" with love and affection.

A lack of organization of PvP players is what doomed the PvP subset, while us carebears made sure we gathered on one server.

Most of the Lurkers who are currently on PvP servers already had guilds or groups of friends to play with and chose their servers accordingly. Of the Lurkers who chose their servers specifically to play with Lurkers, most were naturally carebears and gravitated to Stormrage. It didn't help that Bolty started things off with his "sky is falling" trip on PvP, and I feel that people's bad experiences with ganking in Diablo II predisposed them to avoid what is in fact quite a different game in WoW. Of course, battlegrounds were always considered an on-the-horizon "have my cake and eat it too" option for PvE servers -- "I'll be able to PvP whenever *I* want to!" But until linked battlegrounds makes that a reality, I'm happy with the choice I made. Actually, I'll be happy with that afterwards, too, as PvP makes so many otherwise simple encounters like Kazzak and Azuregos far more interesting and dynamic.

Will The Core folks be on during the day?

There are TC people on 24/7, but it's tough to get in. Basically, unless you're a druid or a warlock, there's slim-to-little chance. TC wants to be exactly the right size to raid dungeons and put up some PvP fights without getting any bigger. I'd suggest that you start off with The Basin, which has an open door policy (I like the description of the open door policy that works both coming in and being booted out).

I'd like to take a level 6 rogue into the Alliance starting area and kill some humans.

I'm afraid you'll have to wait until about level 20 to do that. The starting areas are considered home territory even on PvP servers. It's only at about level 20ish that people start venturing into contested territory.