OOC: The methods behind March's madness

Knowing that Issue 17 is coming in April and that it's supposed to have new content for levels 20-30, I decided to spend much of March (and the XPXP weekend) pushing up a lot of lower level characters to level 20. We have had a lot of characters created but not many of them have made it to level 20, and I decided it was time to change that - it's one of the reasons the sewers and the hollows got so much attention. Time has also been spent in King's Row running radio missions to change things up a bit, along with some final run-out time in Steel Canyon (probably my favorite zone in some ways) to get to 20 and unlock the 2nd costume slot. We are big on costume design here so that 2nd slot is very important. In fact, Halloween salvage is still a hot item here as a character develops, because getting that 2nd look sometimes makes a character "real", instead of a "maybe". That also makes the level 20 slot the 3rd, which lets us be a little more experimental with things and make it a more specialized outift like winter garb or a clubbing outfit. Might seem a little girly, but with 2 girls playing it does come up.

Right now we have 6 characters in the 20's, with 15 more at levels 15-19, so we are close to having a nice big wave of options for April.