CoH - Issue #9 Previews @ Games Radar, Killer Betties

Issue #9 for City of Heroes/Villains is titled Breakthrough and has been previewed at Games Radar and Killer Betties.  According to Games Radar, Breakthrough will offer "upgrades for all":

Issue 9 will introduce the never-before-seen Invention system, which will allow players to boost their masked marauders with crafted costume pieces, new powers, gadgets, and more. Items and powers will be created via Recipes, and raw materials for these goodies will come in the form of “salvage” drops from enemies.

...and more on Inventions from Killer Betties:

Most of the time your inventions will only affect one ability at a time, but as you look around you will be able to find recipes that will allow you to build super inventions that will affect multiple abilities and traits at once. Obviously, these will be the big inventions people will be working for, and the great thing is that these never expire, so you'll always have this attribute boost to your character. You will also be allowed to trade your inventions across servers, and you can put buy in orders by setting the object type or pay price. So, you can go on Friday and say I want "X invention for X price" and if it comes around it will auto buy it for you so you don't have to physically be around to buy it up.