City Of Heroes: Lord Recluse on Releasing Information on CoV

Greetings, City of Heroes fans! Lord Recluse stopped by the CoH Official Forums to answer some pleas for information about the City of Villains expansion. Here's the scoop:

Please -- no conspiracies, no evil plots; it's just common sense.

Right now we are in the early stages of things. We have a lot of ideas about how we want things to work and what will happen. Some only exist in our heads, some are worked out on paper, and a few are starting production. But...

"There is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip."

I've worked on projects where the developers come out early and say "We're going to do this and it will work like this," etc. And you know what? Things changed for all sorts of good reasons -- the system architecture didn't allow it; it was going to take 10 man-years of work to implement; somebody came up with a better idea; and, even, it just wasn't fun.

Right now, if I said "We're doing X," I might not be lying, but that's no guarantee it will happen that way. It is far better to actually get our designs implemented and further down the path and then say, with a lot more certainty, how CoV will work. You'll get better information that way.

So what will help right now? You ideas, especially constructive ones. Just posting "PvP will suck because..." isn't nearly as useful as "I've got a suggestion for how to make PvP fun..." I've seen some good suggestions on these boards which have helped me think through some of the challenges.

And so as not to just complain myself I'm going to start posting some questions to the forum -- things that hopefully get you thinking about those good ideas.