A Dearth of Civilians?

Someone mentioned this last night in a global channel and I've spent some time tonight looking around on Victory...

All the civilian citizens have disappeared from Paragon City! It's a plot! Maybe by Nemesis?

Or perhaps its just a bug... Does anyone know of a known issue causing civilians to disappear?

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They are all in my missions, interrupting my Sniper blasts.

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However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator

Existing thread about this.

Some of us have put forth theories ...

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Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."