Champions Online News & Events & Guides
Now as planned for launch, we're not going to have role switching for archetypes. Now later on down the line, we might have an Archetype where his "cool thing" is that he can do a role switch between two particular roles. As we develop more archetypes that get a little more nichey, we might explore that. But at first, not at all.
CO has a very large roleplaying community. Are there any plans to protect the RP community from the potential of griefers, especially when being banned will result in griefers just logging on/getting a second account?
Unfortunately, the only real way to prevent that is GM intervention. We don't have any plans to restrict access to Club Caprice to Champions Goldmembers only, although we do have the VIP lounge for lifetime and veteran Gold members. All of the chat restrictions and such are still subject to change. We may find that time isn't the best indicator, and maybe we need to do time and a level restriction, or maybe you bothered to spend money in the C-Store and we can instantly drop your restrictions. The restrictions we have right now are based on what other games have done, and if we find that we need further restrictions, then we'll do so.
The previous plan for CO has been to do system updates and add adventure packs. Now that adventure packs are C-Store content for Silver members, will there be a focus towards pushing more for content such as new zones that both Gold and Silver members can enjoy for free?
We're doing some updates -- obviously the Westside and Desert updates that will be available for free-to-play -- and there's some other things we have planned in the existing zones. I mentioned Lemuria before; we're planning on revisiting Lemuria. Will there be new full zones? That really depends on how successful F2P is. New zones are really expensive to develop. We've got plans in the works for at least three different new zones.
Everyone always talks about us promising a moon zone. I've gone on record as saying they've got Canada, which is a white desert, and the Desert, which is the orange desert. And they want the moon? Which would be a... grey desert? But... we actually do have plans for a moon zone that actually isn't just a grey desert. But in any case, we've had plans for some time, but we really need more subscribers to push that.
