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== Overview ==
Planned for release with Issue 9, players will use the Invention System to craft Enhancements, costume pieces, temporary powers, inspirations and other items for their characters using recipes and new invention salvage dropped by defeated foes.

Game developers stated that the long-rumored "Legacy System", which would allow for additional improvements of level 50 characters, has evolved/been wrapped up into the Invention System. [http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=general&Number=6612818&bodyprev=#Post6612818]

== The University ==
The Steel Canyon campus of [[the University]] is the place where heroes learn to use the Invention System.  Players can take a series of tutorial missions to learn about the system; the first contact is [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/lenk.jpg Admissions Officer Lenk].  

All campuses (Steel Canyon, Croatoa and Founders' Falls) also hold many [[Invention Worktables]] at which inventions may be created.

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Image:University entryway.jpg|Entryway
Image:University Library.jpg|Library
Image:University Lab.jpg|Laboratory
Image:University Inventing.jpg|Inventing animation 
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== Inventing in General ==
[[Inventions]] are created by combining [[salvage]], [[influence]]/[[infamy]] and a [[recipe]] at a [[worktable]].

There are currently four types of [[inventions]]:
*[[Invention Made Costumes]]
*[[Invention Origin Enhancements|Enhancements]]
*[[Component]]s
*[[Invention Temporary Powers]]

== Specific Inventions ==
=== Enhancements ===
See [[Invention Origin Enhancements]]

=== Costume Pieces ===

A number of animated costume pieces will be able to be crafted with the system.  Known initial pieces include:
:Tech Wings
:Dragon Wings
:Burned Wings
:Bone Wings
:Bat Wings
:Cherub Wings
:Insect Wings
:Fairy Wings
:Rocket Boots (animate while Flying)
:Piston Boots (animate while Jumping)
:Winged Boots


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Image:Bone Wings 01.jpg  
Image:Bone Wings 02.jpg  
Image:Dragon wings 01.jpg  
Image:Dragon wings 02.jpg 
Image:Fairy Wings 01.jpg 
Image:Fairy Wings 02.jpg 
Image:Insect Wings 01.jpg 
Image:Insect Wings 02.jpg 
Image:Tech Wings.jpg 
Image:Rocket Boots 01.jpg 
Image:Rocket Boots 02.jpg 
Image:Issue 9 Boots.jpg
Image:Wings Tech.jpg
Image:Wings Fairy.jpg
Image:Wings Insect.jpg
Image:Wings Dragon.jpg
Image:Wings Bone.jpg
Image:Wings Bat.jpg
Image:Wings Cherub.jpg
Image:Wings Burned.jpg
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=== Temporary Powers ===

''Main article: [[Invention Temporary Powers]]''

There are a small number of temporary powers craftable with the inventions system.

=== Badges ===

From early developer comments about the Invention System, it was revealed that the system would allow for the crafting of any type of reward in the game, including crafting of badges.  No badges are directly crafted in the initial implementation of the system, however.  A large number of badges are, however, linked to the system, as seen below.

=== Inspirations ===
=== Base Items ===
=== Other ===

== More Information ==

=== Screen Captures ===

* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/cutaway.jpg Cutaway of university under the map]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/lenk.jpg Admissions Officer Lenk], and his [http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/1922/lenksylloy3.jpg syllabus]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/boram.jpg Professor Boram]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/tileset1.jpg Campus Supply Room 1], [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/tileset2.jpg Campus Supply Room 2], [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/tileset3.jpg Campus Supply Room 3]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/salvagekit.jpg Salvage Kit] (12 pieces)
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/taylor.jpg Professor Taylor], and his [http://home.comcast.net/~ksonnad/recipes.jpg recipes tutorial]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/chandler.jpg Professor Chandler], and her [http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9687/workbenchdg9.png workbench tutorial]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/angle.jpg Accessing Professor Chandler 1], [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/behind.jpg Accessing Professor Chandler 2]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/topffer.jpg Professor Topffer], and his [http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/680/inventionip3.png inventions tutorial]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/jones.jpg Guidance Counselor Jones], and the [http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3046/wentworthpx2.png Wentworth's advertisement]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/aschedule.jpg Schedule A Enhancements]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/bschedule.jpg Schedule B Enhancements]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/workbench.jpg University Workbench]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/crafting.jpg Creating a new enhancement]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/created.jpg Enhancement Created!]
* [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/recharge.jpg Invented Recharge Enhancement], [http://home.comcast.net/~vsonnad/disorient.jpg Invented Disorient Enhancement], [http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4402/runspeedmf8.jpg Run Speed Enhancement]

[[Category:Invention System]]