Earl had a test-drive in one and it was a disaster, IIRC. Didn't know that they had been fixed since then.
Earl just panicked because riding those things is pretty scary, especially on the upper levels. You'll hear this from Blake's mouth very early into the v0.20
Destroying it, no, but it would be an extremely high priority target for any other faction that arises to want to capture, both for its own inherent value and as a major weakness of the city. Is Dommie really so full of herself that she assumes that there won't be any other factions forming? People band together, it's what they do. For someone who's supposed to be all about building for the future, she is incredibly short-sighted.
But there are no other factions, as I said. People who could oppose Dominique already live in Deliverance or were eliminated. And the old city still gets power from the same plant (Dommie wouldn't just let it die, she keeps it on life support. At least, certain districts). Plus, soon Deliverance will get its own fusion reactor, and the old one will be kept as a secondary system anyway.
I thought that the people and things created in VR came from the minds of the user, not the VR system. There's no way that the system can have profiles for everything that people might conceivably create.
Yes, but every human user still has their own profile within the system, and if you've never seen Jasmine, how would you imagine her? However, if you browse the network, you will encounter other people who use it, and maybe try to interact with their profile. I hoped to develop this part a bit more in the recent updates, like give Blake a chance to experience someone else's world after they left the system, but for now let's just say that Erika keeps that from happening.