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Remember, she knows that he will hit on women. Thus he is scum.

Of course, you're missing that even the lowest ranking 'cop' in that world has still shown he has decided to uphold Tyrant's way of life. Thus, one doesn't really need to be in a very high position to have more power than the sheep who enjoy Tyrant's ideal, yet do nothing to support it. I expect this will be like '20s movies police, rampant corruption at all ranks, with only a few good apples that actually care about the people, more than their badge.

Who said they have to beat up on the people above them anyway? Those people are offering the Villain-in-training a venue for his violence and a steady supply of victims. It's like killing the Goose to get to the Golden Eggs inside.

Descends from...wha?

On our way to being Heroes.


Yay.

She's got a badge that says she's an Arch Villain. I've got a badge that says my character is the Origin of Power. Given the reaction of our masters, the contacts I'd say neither one of them is really true.

Is unlikely. I know we talk about beating Recluse up as a Villain. Do you know what we get as a reward for doing so? We get to fulfill the very plan that he broke us out of the Zig for. [sarcasm]What an honor.[/sarcasm]

Seriously, the reason he breaks his new Servants out of the Zig is because one of his Fortunata saw that someone among them is strong enough to take down Statesman. Finding which one is the right one is something he calls Operation: Destiny.

Unsurprisingly to anyone, if a character is able to take down one Incarnate, he can take down another. Thus you become a threat to Recluse's reign and the world's safety. You them beat up future Recluse to show that you're not one to be messed with. As a result Recluse says he's going to stop Operation: Destiny, since it's too late to stop the war that would result because of it. And then he offers you the chance to go beat up Statesman, the very point of Operation: Destiny to begin with.

Better to quell stuff like that before the rumors start. Devs already catch enough flak without letting comments like that bite them.

Text option when dealing with the contact.

No, you really are just a servant, lackey or other word for minion. Even at 50, you're still bottom of the totem pole. And like you said, it's not going to change any time soon.

Still doesn't change the fact that Heroes will be given free will on the Incarnate system, and Villains - no, Servants, because you don't actually get to be a Villain in that game - will be ordered about as usual.

Not necessarily. All you need is a mission where you click a computer desk to download potential blackmail material, or an escort mission where the hostage has the same last name as the contact.

And yet Heroes don't have Statesman shoved into every aspect of their lives. Heck it was several years before he was even seen in the game outside of a single instanced mission.

Something tells me Heroes will be able to explore the Incarnate idea of their own free will, without interaction from Statesman.

Villains who are a threat usually get this treatment from those weaker than themselves. Minions of Thugs are the ones that usually don't.

Or, more in line with the current mode of thinking, he's going to order you to Praetoria, because he doesn't expect you to survive and would rather save his Wolf Spiders for something important.

No, not really.

Lemme go back to your Scrubs reference from a few pages back. You mentioned thinking that Villains were JD to Recluse's Dr. Cox. To make it more accurate, let's imagine that there's someone that JD treats exactly like Dr. Cox treats him. Now let's further imagine that this person treats someone else similarly. We'll call that person at the bottom there Paul Chalmers, or PC for short. Now PX actually has the medical knowledge, credentials and expertise to outshine Dr. Cox, and in fact does so on a regular basis. And yet they still get crapped on by people who get crapped on. And why?

Well, that's a question we PCs have been trying to answer for a while now.

Essentially; "Don't expect to be anything more than a purse snatcher, because you as a player Villain have no power, and can't even stand up to a level 1 minion."

No dice. We've not been asking to be revered like Heroes, but feared as someoen of the power we display in game. Just like Heroes, there's no NPC that can stand up to us. Yet none of them consider us more threatening than the dead ficus.

Essentially, if you want to be treated decently by the game, you need to leave Villainy behind. Thus, City of Villains was a complete waste of time, effort and money and should be shut down.

That about sum it up?

Because we don't need to. And often, ruling the world is actually more limiting to what Villains want than anything else.

You're not listening. We don't have to actually do anything. It would just be nice if the NPCs would recognize that we COULD, and thus don't continually try to piss us off.

Most Villains aren't in it for the publicity, either. Sure you get some like the Joker, who intentionally try to get one over on the Bat from day one, but most Villains actually try to keep their actions quiet and off the radar at first. It's only AFTER the Hero has messed every thing up that they start on the revenge ploys. And even then, some times it can take several trips to jail before it starts getting to them.

Well, I must say I didn't actually expect you to be OK with a game insulting players.