Oh yeah and since we're dreaming and wishing? I really hope we can get rid of those aggro limits. I miss the old days of Perez Park, and also dumpster diving.
This just brings up the wonderful thought for me that I'm not sure everyone fully grasps or appreciates if they haven't ever used a "private server" before: This will finally,
truly be OUR city. Once you lay the framework for the game and the servers, the rest is up to the people running the server. They'll be able to add new powersets, tweak old ones, add zones, add whole story arcs, badges, TFs, anything. They can create a hard-mode server where street mobs are three levels higher and you gain XP at half the rate, or an easy mode server where you start at level 50. There is a whole world of possibility, and with such a creative community as ours the sky truly is the limit. We have artists and modelers, writers and developers, math wizards and code experts.
If we get together as a community and decide we want to complete the Wind Control set that never even got animations, we can put our people to work designing animations and effects, balancing the numbers, and writing the code for it, then it can simply be implemented and we'll have a brand new power set. We can create new custom animations/power themes/effects as a community and implement them. I'm sure plenty of talented artists among us would be able to create the proper graphical assets to give Dark Blast/Dark Manipulation/Dark Whatever the same inky effects as Darkness Control. We could add an extra power to Darkness Control itself that would give you a different pet than the dark wolf and make them mutually exclusive. We could perform proliferation ourselves. And that's just POWERS. Considering all the amazing story arcs from Architect, we could introduce enough content to keep the missions going for decades, create new assets for new zones, we could rebuild Boomtown, make that Rikti EAT that was always talked about, hell, with enough work, we could even create Clown Summoning!
I'm just as excited for this as anyone, even if none of this happens. I just want my city back, the way it was at the end, and I'm willing to wait however long it takes to get it back, but if we really take the initiative then we won't have to settle for just having it back, we can rebuild from the ashes and make it better than it ever was.