City of Heroes Issue 13: Architect Announced!

ISSUE 13 SUMMARY

Today Issue 13 of City of Heroes has been announced! There are some surprising new features! We all know about the new Mission Creator system they are adding but they are also adding in day jobs, this is really cool! Depending on where you log out for example in a university or a hospital your character gets influence and other benefits while your offline. This feature makes the game seem more realistic because all heroes have a secrete identity. Other features include the shields power set of course and the new pain domination for villains which will available to Corruptors and Masterminds. Pain domination is like empathy but with an evil twist. The new Merit Reward System is being added which. You get Merits for completing task forces and such, you can turn these Reward Merits in for rewards. They are also adding new story arcs and more back story to the Cimerora zone, which will be cool since the only thing to do their really is the Imperious Task Force. I am very excited about this issue there are some cool new features. I am most excited about the new day job feature.

The coolest thing about the day job feature is you can choose what you want to be. Want to be a doctor log out in the hospital, want to be a scholar log out in the university, and I am guessing that you can be a police man which would funny since you are a superhero. They told us that if you were to log out as the doctor when you log back in you get influence and a health buff. Also if you were to be a scholar you would get influence and get salvage items. The cool thing about this the more you do your job the better the benefits you get, like getting more influence and better benefits. This new feature really took me by surprise, I thought they were just going to add just a few minor things and they add a completely new thing. Sadly though no moon base, maybe in a later issue.

Also they are adding, new costume pieces, patron power respec, zone make overs, and new invention origin sets.

Here is the announcement page.

You must read this letter from Positron. (Has a lot more information on issue 13)