Cryptic Studios/NCsoft have announced the forthcoming release of the 13th free expansion for City of Heroes: Issue 13: Architect.

While this latest update is still in development, players are to be handed the creativity to develop their own missions and story arcs which can be shared with the greater CoH community. Utilising a tool that will be similar to the character creation interface, players will be able to mould their imaginative ideas into a wide range of customizable areas, including the environment, individual mission objectives, enemies and as far reaching as character dialogues. It has also been confirmed that rewards will be available for the creators of high standard content.

Further to the creativity concept, greater character customization is also to be introduced with the implementation of “day-jobs”. Impacted by the actual location of the character on game log-out (for example a player exiting the game inside a University will be classed as a scholar) , further individual rewards and bonuses awill be achieveable on successful offline periods of time accrued within that particular area. New titles will be awarded for such completion, as well as Day Job Badges, to which it is interesting to note that multiple Badges will be able to be combined for further additional achievements.

A Merit Reward System is also to be introduced for the completion of Trials and Raids etc, which can also be exchanged for various game items and enchancements.

The official announcement for Architect can be found HERE