City of Heroes and Villains Lead Designer Matt ‘Positron’ Miller has been talking more about the Inventions system that will be introduced in the upcoming Issue #9 with MMORPG.com and GameSpot.

Over at MMORPG.com you can learn more about the history of Inventions, the basics of how the system will work, and see an example of one of the ‘enhancement sets’ that heroes and villains will be able to collect to give their characters new and unique abilities and bonuses:

We determined that adding mini-powers to your existing ones had a lot of potential, as the sky would nearly be the limit on what we could accomplish with these new Enhancements.

Read the full Inventions article at MMORPG.com.

GameSpot, meanwhile, has quizzed Matt about many aspects of the Inventions system - in the course of which, he reveals that the Auction system, which will make it easier for players to buy and sell Inventions and the materials required to make them, will work across servers:

The consignment houses are all cross-server. This means that someone on the Virtue server could be selling recipes and salvage to someone on the Justice server. This will result in a wealth of items to buy, and a wealth of buyers to sell to.

Read the full Q&A at GameSpot.