Issue 14 will take on the name "Architect" and contain the Mission Architect feature along with other features will be announced at a later date. Issue 14: Architect will be released Winter of 2009. Issue 13 is now called "Issue 13: Power and Responsibility" and be launched in the Fall of 2008.
When Issue 13: Architect was announced a couple weeks ago, and have recieved a strong response to it. Much of the feedback was centered around the Mission Architect system which allows players to create their own missions and story arcs. Adding custom characters has always been on the Mission Architect feature list, and the company could launch the system without this feature because their confidence was high that the rest of the system was incredibly robust.
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The Leveling Pact: A new innovation to MMOs, this groundbreaking system allows you and a buddy to create new characters and have your XP be permanently in sync, whether both characters are online or not. Another innovation to City of Heroes, two different build-outs of each character, including which powers are selected and which Enhancements are slotted. This will now be possible for characters who want to take advantage of it. By visiting any Trainer you can switch the entire build of your character to an alternate one. You can use this separate build for whatever you like. If you wish to use different power selections for soloing and groups.
This feature simply must be in at launch. That it is an integral part of the Mission Architect, and the schedules and timelines to accomplish this. Rather than push the launch of Issue 13 out completely for one feature, the Mission Architect will be a slight delay. What is not going to be delayed is the rest of Issue 13. To that end, the previously announced feature set for Issue 13, together with new features here , will become Issue 13 and Issue 14.
Issue 13: Power and ResponsibilityIssue 13: Power and Responsibility will contain the bulk of features including:
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Shield and Pain Domination powersets
Merit Reward system
Day Jobs (that include a suite of new costume pieces)
Additional Cimerora and Midnight Squad mission arcs
In addition, we have some other new exciting features to reveal that will be included in Leveling Pact
Multi-Builds
PvE %26amp; PvP Powers rebalancing
Villain Patron Power Respec
Supergroup Base Repricing