I agree with you Eric 100%. Those blue and purple caves are hideous in every respect...even made worse when someone throws a speed buff on you, and you get stuck in every frackin corner because you overshoot your turn. :(

Though Villian side, those maps are laid out a little more interstingly and expansive. Though those designs don't carry over on Hero side until you start hitting Tasks Forces.

Anyways...yes agreed, the game needs more new inovated maps (without making them Black Rock Depths in WoW.)

Yeah villainside has much more map/mission variety - it's one of the major reasons why 14 of my 17 Level 50 characters are villains - heroside bores me too.

Sure, CoH itself can be boring and repetitive (heck, all MMOs are repetitive), but most of its content was created before the game's launch and most of it has never been revamped - by contrast CoV's content is much more interesting, as the Devs had learnt from their mistakes with early CoH. That's why if you look at the best content on heroside it's all stuff that was added after CoV (the revamps of Faultline & RWZ, especially) using the lessons they learnt from making that. Going Rogue's Praetoria should be a similar leap forward in terms of map design and storytelling - this Dev team learns from their mistakes and listens to player feedback, so the game is always improving.

Though I just can't help but wish that CoH would do a WoW:Cataclysm style revamp of all their old content (maybe post-GR). Even if Praetoria is stunningly good, the old Paragon City content will still be there, for CoH veterans to moan about and for the haters to point out as evidence that CoH is a tired old game, when really it isn't - NCSoft know that, which is why they've poured so much investment into CoH/V.

CoH/V is very slick systems/gameplay-wise - now they just need more content - and War Witch has confirmed that mission/map content is their main priority now.