Issue 8 – to Protect and Serve

I haven’t plowed through it yet, and I hope there’s a transcript of it somewhere, but this thread includes a bunch of comments from Positron about Issue 8 as recorded on a WOOT Radio interview. Among the “GLEE!” moments:

1. Travel power customization costume bits — including jet packs and wings (!) that flap when you fly (!!).
2. Nictus and “Evil Peacebringers” coming to CoV.
3. Faultline will (finally) get rebuilt.
4. The pay boxed “expansion set” has been scrapped — the stuff will be rolled into the free updates.
5. The Fifth Column is returning … next year.
6. Invention system is coming … next year.
7. Power customizations … probably not coming. Bummer.
8. Rent will be based on plot size.
9. Veteran (account longevity) reward badges coming each 3 months.
10. SG sizes changing to 75 accounts, not toons.
11. Two new accolades coming, waiting on powers to be built.
12. Some villain powersets will come to CoH.
13. Server transfer and “switching sides” very much still on the table, already partially built, but no schedule.
14. Flashback (“Back when I was 20th level and hadn’t yet done this content …”) on the table.
15. A permanent Nemmy staff as a veteran reward?
16. Hero side mayhem missions — with jet pack rewards pre-14.
17. War Walls coming down?!
18. A Statesman TF, going up against Recluse et al.
19. New content/contacts post-50 in I8.
20. More Double XP weekends.

Yowzers.

UPDATE: Here’s a summary. Looooots more detail. Glee!

UPDATE:

16. Rewards system: 1st veteran reward 3 months Trenchcoats on all characters. They are a back option, IE like a cape. There are veteran rewards planned for up to 3 years of subscription. (April)

17. Wings: an unlockable costume piece. Wings will move in flight. (very impressed with look of wings).

18. Jetpacks eventually coming down the road. (Flight options). Castle has made a zillion and will kill posi if he is asked to make one more.