The latest City of Heroes Producer's Letter from Nate "Second Measure" Birkholz. The letter goes into some detail about the newly announced Global Server List and expanding the European player base by expanding the player pool. Birkholz also discusses player identities with a short footnote about Issue 20.

We know that your online and in-game identities are important. City of Heroes is at its heart a game about who you are, not just what you do. We've all spent the last 7 years forming friendships, alliances, and rivalries in City of Heroes, and we know that anything that can impact your in-game identity can be a reason for concern. At the same time, to make this server list change happen, we need to ensure your identity remains unique from other players. We did a lot of data mining and found that pre-pending the names of EU accounts affected the fewest active players (the difference is hundreds vs thousands).

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