Golden Girl

They said at Hero Con that Tyrant killed the Praetorian Recluse.

Yeah - I think it's almost totally impossible that GR won't have the new endgame system in it.

I prefer to go by my in-game experiences

It's possible - but I think it's more of a general Roman inspiration for both of them, rather than any lore-based connection.

I'm trying to convince you not to expect a standalone 1-50 experience like CoV had -taht doesn't mean GR is going to blow in any way, shape or form - except maybe blow you away with awesome

Logic can bring down even the most mentally gigantic people

Don't weep - I think it's totally unlikely that they're going to create a whole new world, and only let levels 20 and under run around in it
Like I'm pretty sure that the final showdown with Tyrant won't be capped at 20

That's exactly what I think too - even though RPers might have their own backgrounds, as far as the game is concerned, you're a brand new Hero when you step out of the tutorial and into Atlas or Galaxy - so that's way to early to give you the choice to become evil, as you've not had the chance to reach a height of goodness to fall into evil from.

So although your avatar might be an immortal champion of justice who's fought evil throughout the centuries, the game views you as if you've only just found out which end of your sword to hold so your fingers don't get cut.
It doesn't force this view down your throat, so there's enough wiggle room for RPers, but there's no way they'd give you the choice to start turning evil at level 2

Positron said you get to choose during the tutorial - so depending on how many levels the turtorial has, you'll be able to start your moral journey pretty early on.

That's how I see it playing out - your career in Praetoria would see you rise through the ranks of the Resistance or Tyrant's goons, which would impress your leader/leaders enough to chose you to be sent to Primal Earth for various missions there.

For example, as you serve Tyrant 1-20, your ruthlessness catches his eye, so at the end of your training program at the Powers Division, where you'd be one of the 10% who survive, Chimera would tell you that the Emperor himself has noted your progress, and send you to Tyrant's tower to meet him - Tyrant would then tell you a bit about his plans to invade Primal Earth, and possibly also how the Resistance are looking for help there too, and that as you've proved yourself, he's sending you there to help the agents he already has there.
You'd then go to Primal Earth, where you'd meet the head of Tyrant's agent network there - they'd have new misisons and arcs that would take place both on Primal Earth, and back in Praetoria - they'd possibly be like the Kheldian contacts - not enough missions and arcs to level only via them, but enough every 5 levels or so to keep you connected to the overall storyline.

The Resistance would also have a network of agents on Primal Earth, to try and get help for their struggle back on Praetoria, and to combat Tyrant's agents on Primal Earth, and possibly have the same storylines, but done form the opposite point of view.

For example, here on Primal Earth, there are several things that could cause tyrant and the Resistance problems - like the psychic blocker Unai Kemen gives out for the Babbage mission on PI - a psychic blocker would be a very serious threat to Tyrant's Seer network, but a very valuable aid to the Resistance - so if you were working for Tyrant, one of the arcs you'd be sent on on Primal Earth would be to steal or destory a psychic blocker to stop it falling into the hands of the Resistance - and if you were working for the Resistance on Primal Earth, you could be sent to get hold of it before Tyrant's agents do.
Your first mission fo the arc would take you to PI, where you'd then find you were too late, and the enemy had gotten to the psychic blocker before you - so your next mission would be to head back to Praetoria to try and intercept it before it was taken to either Tyrant or the Resistance, depending on what side you were supporting.

And there could also be one-off missions, similar to the "Wipe Out Marauder's Cell" mission from Maria Jenkins - only it'd be something along the lines of "Defeat the Loyalist/Resistance Cell", which would send you to a safe house/secret base in Pragaon City.

So even though you must leave Praetoria, I really don't think that's suddenly the end fo your carrer or the overall GR storyline, or that you don't get to go back to Praetoria later.

Just before you have to leave Praetoria, you're given a final choice if you really want to continuen with the moral path you've been on since level 1, so even if you've been helping Tyrant 1 through 20, you still get a chance to switch to the right side before you leave.

They way that would probably play out would be that you'd learn more and more of the truth behind the Praetorian lore, so if you were a Resistance supporter, you'd gradually learn about how bad the world was before Tyrant "fixed" it, and if you were helping Tyrant, you'd gradually learn more and more about the evil behind the "utopia" he's made - so your first impressions and loyalties from the tutorial would be challenged as your career in Praetoria progressed.

Actually, I think it'll continue their, whatever side you end up helping.

So you don't think that the quote that Praetoria "adds multiple zones, and it spans an epic storyline from 1 to 20" quote along with the "all the Praetorians will eventually leave Praetoria...it's part of the storyline - they all leave" quote kinda hints that Praetorians are not going to be able to stay in Praetoria the whole time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCXo3ib7fYE

At 02:20

They'll probably make it 10,000 now, to punish you for your insolence.

Not let you leave - you must leave - it's part of the storyline

I'm still not so sure that'd be a factor - even if they give players the chance to make their 50s more like 60s, and so need to give them a suitable challenge for their new powers, lower levels could still tag along - I've done ITFs where I was the only 50, the next highest was 40.

So while the endgame might be for 50s only, I think it'd still be quite possible to have a mixed team of 50s-being-60s with sk'ed normal 50s.

Heroes have /e batsmash, and Villains have /e batsmashreact?

Define "great"

But wouldn't that need devs called Mynx and Bobcat?