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I do gig, but I haven't gigged in a little while. I'll probably just change the one string this time, but if any more break in the near future, I'll change them all.
I agree with whomever said old strings sound better, but only with acoustics. In the beginning of my band, our singer played an acoustic that he almost never changed the strings on (largely because it was easier to hold the tuners and turn the guitar than to turn the tuners), and made the songs sound much darker...
swa(y): Having a Floyd is both a blessing and a curse. I bend strings alot, and I can get pretty slammin' on heavy rhythm parts, so I was always going out of tune between songs when I had a guitar with a hardtail or a regular trem. I don't do that as much with the Floyd. That said, changing strings can be a little more tedious, and as you pointed out, you're pretty much locked into one tuning. But I gave up playing in weird tunings a while ago because I felt whenever I used an altered tuning, I'd sound too much like Sonic Youth. Plus, I play a lot of leads/solos (not shredding, but soloing nonetheless-think Johnny Greenwood mixed with some wannabe J. Mascis/David Gilmour), and altered tunings aren't really suitable for that. But it's okay, since my band primarily plays in standard A440 and drop-D tunings. The drop-D tunings could be a problem until I got an EVH D-Tuna, which allows you to drop your low E string down to D just by pulling it out.
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