For those of you just joining the hoopla, City of Villains is the companion to City of Heroes, taking place in the Rogue Isles. Although they are islands, there is plenty of room for the urban and industrial environments that CoH players are familiar with, and you can play both games for a total of $15COV Infamy a month.cov infamy  CoV also gives your super group the ability to build a base, where you can resurrect if you die, turn salvage into base items, and set up traps to defend a relic of power. The base building interface is quite clean and intuitive, and like costume creation, the possibilities are virtually endless.
You will have several different templates to choose from, and you can mix and match as you like. Depending on your budget, you can create an enormous palace, but you will have to pay rent every couple weeks. If you do not the power shuts down, so you can do salvage or hospital functions. Fortunately, there is no back rent piling up, so you will never have to pay more than the last rent bill, no matter how long it has been. Money to build stuff is gained through Prestige, which you acquire like experience points when you are in Super Group Mode. You gain a little less experience in this mode, but it is nothing too bad. You will also have access to the team colors, so you can adjust your outfit at any time if you like. My SG colors are purple and beige, though, so that is kind of hideous.
At any rate, let us get down to what it is like to play CoV Infamy.cov infamy If you have played City of Heroes, there are not any fundamental differences, for better or worse. You have the Mastermind character class -- basically a necromancer, summoning minions to do the bulk of the fighting. As a Mastermind, you will choose your development tree at the beginning; do you want to have mercenaries, ninjas, zombies, or robots? Each minion type has its advantages and disadvantages, and as you level up, you will eventually be able to summon more of them at a time, and give them buffs (ability boosts, which are in this case permanent, until the minion dies). I chose zombies.