Will this game has a sidekick system similar to CoH? One of the awesome things about CoH was the ability to team with people outside of your level, by sidekicking them. Of course, later that changed a bit, making everyone basically the team leader's level. Either system would be ok by me. Or even a different system, as long as it allowed the ability for low level characters to team up with their higher level friends.

Any thoughts, or info?

STO calls this "level matching" which I think is more descriptive.

Yes we will have a system that allows players to group together on most content regardless of level and while being less efficient it will be a core part of our social system. This system will also interface with some of our RP systems so when we get those in it will be opened up to combat. Thanks being part of our community!