I know there has been a post about this, but it was long ago, and with the new information we have and the more willingness on ES's side to give us info this might get a better response. The Gamespy article said something along the lines of HCs offline and online and lvling needing to be balanced so they lvl at the same pace: I sure hope this doesn't mean you can use your offline city online.
I'm begging you ES: Make the HC online ONLY availible to be made and leveled online, and stored on Ensemble's servers, not on the computer. If you allow it to be leveled purely offline, and taken online, it will be hacked within about 35 minutes and people with capped HCs will be online in no time. Anything offline can be hacked, and no measures you put against it can stop it. I hope this comes to you guys as obvious, but that GS article scared me.
Any thoughts? Does that GS line mean you can use them either way or does it just mean they want multiplayer and offline cities to level at the same rate?