From the Second Anniversary Address by Statesman and Positron:
With Issue 7 mostly “in the can” as it were (bugs aside), the leads here have been focusing on the future of the franchise. There is a major effort underway on “end-game” content for max-level characters, the first part of which you will see in Issue 8, which is due out later this year.
Issue 8 will also bring with it the Veterans’ Reward system. This will allow us to give out special thank-you gifts to our players based on the number of months they have been subscribed. These gifts will range from costume pieces to powers to base items and beyond. You don’t even have to do anything to get them, other than keeping an active account.
Beyond that, we are looking to release another Issue building up the story towards our next retail box, due in 2007. This will include going back and revamping some of the zones from City of Heroes, using everything we’ve learned from making City of Villains and Issue 7, plus a bunch of other cool stuff including new powersets and an epic archetype. Of course for the retail box we will be creating all-new zones and content based on the results of the forum poll we posted last month. The retail box will be an expansion to both City of Heroes and City of Villains.
Glee!
Woot! 🙂
Yes. All the stuff there looks cool.
The “special gift” for two-anniversary people appears to be a Gladiator, by the way, which is mildly disappointing. Except that it’s a Krieger which is a … Fifth Columnist. Innnnnnteresting.
So what do these things do? Let you add an NPC to your team or something?
Quoth Stateman on the Expansion Pack:
Quoth Positron:
And a well-gathered thread here on what is “known” about the upcoming Epic Archetypes.
Gladiators (to answer your question, Avo) allow for team-vs-team “Pet” battles — limited controls (BD refers to it as Mastermind Lite) and watch them slug it out.
I might do some playing with it some time.