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Morality missions ignore the 20 hour Fame Point/Counting tip timer.

Yes, a rogue will be able to do all the villain content missions. The bonuses for being a pure hero or villain are the clubs and the hero alignment merits or villain alignment merits.

You can find out more in this thread about those:
http://tinyurl.com/Issue18Guide

I've already had that argument with other players. However Positron has already said no one will be permanently penalized for changing sides.

You gain powers from doing the morality mission. If you do the same morality mission as your current alignment, you can get the power too (for existing characters).

Exactly.

It is a visual representation of how many counting missions (including shared tips) you have done in the last 20 hours. You cannot "save up" and do more. If you have filled your 5 fame points, no more tip missions will count towards filling your alignment bars. You can't do 5 hero tips, 5 vigilante tips for progress. You could do 3 hero tips and 2 vigilante tips for progress in a 20 hour period. You are free to do more tip missions with friends, but they will not count if your fame points are filled.

No comment other than to say that when you hover over a Fame Point you'll get "You are famous for this deed for X amount of time" or "Your deed will be forgotten in XX minutes".

You have to switch sides to get the opposite gladiator, but you do NOT lose gladiators or badges by switching sides. A new character can eventually get all the gladiators except the 5th Column (1st & 2nd Anniversary badges).

Mutually exclusive. See section 4.

Part 4: Alignment changes

Right. Agent of Order/Chaos will change on a Primal Earth character as they switch sides.

A praetorian, will always have Agent of Praetoria, no matter how many times that character changes alignment. It will change badge art, but that really isn't being tracked by the badge sites (and in reality doesn't need to be).

Even if a Praetorian goes to the Isles or Paragon and gets the damage badges after that point, they still only get the Praetorian versions of those badges.

I'm currently working on updating my morality guide and the set_title list, but I think that outside of those achievements, Praetorians do not have their own list of, say, defeat badges, accolades, etc.

Yeah, the guide was initially done before the market merge announcement, and I'm still editing stuff out. Again, I figured I would have had more time to polish it before putting it out. However with the new open access, I felt the need to explain the system was more important than a few market change errors.

You get a morality mission when you fill up a alignment bar (I'm going to add/post pictures in a bit). You can still fill other bars you have, and then choose to do a morality mission for that alignment. Also at the end of every morality mission you are given the chance to back out. (If you don't crash at that point. If you do crash at that point, the game sometimes accepts for you.)

Erm, yeah. Now I remember why I was checking the set_titles.

I think there was one other in the early stages as well. Also a couple of market badges have the difference of "marketeer" vs "marketer".

Um, Praetorian/Hero & Praetorian/Villain are one badge. They don't swap. Any Praetorian version badge do not conflict with their Hero/Villain counterparts (at least in the set_titles/database entries).

Actually there were players in the beta before May 6. While I wasn't one of them, I know several players that were, just by posts on the forums. The CoP was active since the first week in May as well.

DumpleBerry was right: Closed Beta started April 2nd.

(Apologies to Lewis Caroll):

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the NDA, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The NDA, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the NDA?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Yeah, the alignment system seems to be the one of the most confusing aspects of Going Rogue.

For Triumph I'd say about 60% Blue / 40% Red. It changes from time to time though (sometimes as much as 80/20).

Thanks!

Fame Points, which track completed tip missions & how long until you can get another counting tip, degrade in 20 hours. Fame Points are different than the Alignment meters. Each alignment meter is like a badge meter tracking your overall progress.

Heroes will have hero and vigilante alignment meters.
Vigilantes will have hero, vigilante, and villain alignment meters.
Villains will have villain and rogue alignment meters.
Rogues will have villain, rogue, and hero alignment meters.

Each meter is a scale from 1-10. If the character does a morality mission and accepts the choice, then all alignment meters get reset. If you have any Fame Points at that time, you still can't get new tips to earn alignment credit until they are "not remembered" (20 hours from the time you get the Fame point).

A hero has to turn vigilante before turning villain before turning rogue before turning hero.

Hero <-> Vigilante -> Villain <-> Rogue -> Hero

So a character that wants to travel the alignment spectrum, starting as a hero (to pick a start point), has to do 10 vigilante tips in two days (or over the course of days/weeks/months/years). At that point they can get a vigilante morality mission tip (random drop). If they accept the mission and complete it, they will be a vigilante. The now vigilante now has a choice:

If they want to return to being a true hero, they can do heroic tips in Pargaon.
If they want to stay a vigilante, they can do vigilante tips in Paragon.
If they want to become a villain, they have to do evil tips in the Isles.

After filling their alignment bar (again over a period of time no less than 20 hours) for a villain, they do a villain morality mission and become a pure villain. At this point they only have two tip options: villain or rogue.

They decide they don't like being a villain so they do rogue missions until they've earned enough alignment credit to become a rogue. They do the rogue morality mission and can now access Paragon City again, but they still are not fully trusted. So they can choose again: do villain tips in the Isles and become a true villain again, do rogue tips in the Isles and stay a rogue, or head to Paragon and do hero tips there and clear their name to become a true hero.

Lose it.

Thanks for the nice birthday (Aug 22) gift!

A hero turned villain will not be kicked out of a hero group, but can't join another group until they leave the hero group. They cannot access the base, sgmode, or earn prestige, at least until they return to being a hero.

Groups are either good or evil, never neutral. While vigilantes or rogues can get the beacon badges for the opposite side, the group can NOT place teleporters to the opposite side's zones. Hero bases cannot have teleporters to Mercy Island.

That was eliminated, only limit is 5 max per day.

You get to stay, but you can't use the base. Your prestige total and join date will remain if you want to stay with the group and return to being the same faction as the group/base.

NDA has been lifted:
(Apologies to Lewis Caroll):

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the NDA, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The NDA, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the NDA?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Alignment and fame points are pretty much the same thing. When you get a fame point, one "box" that can hold a tip gets filled and locked. That box doesn't empty for 20 hours after you get that fame point. Morality missions do not use the fame point "box".

You cannot at this time get any tips/contacts in Praetoria, only in non-Praetoria zones. You can dismiss any tips. Tips in the Rogue Isles will always be geared to making you a villain or rogue, while tips in Paragon City will always be geared to making you a hero or vigilante.

Beat up any critter level 20+ (one of the reasons no tips in Praetoria) as long as you have trained up to level 20 (again, why no tips in Praetoria) will have a random chance to drop tips. You get better results with Bosses as opposed to minions.

Again, any critter in zones or in missions will drop tips.

Given the frequency of tip drops (as long as you've not done your maximum amount of counting tips (ie do not have 5 Fame Points), teaming is NOT an issue. The quickest I've gotten 3 tips (the most you can hold at one time) is about 1 minute.

It doesn't.

There is and isn't a timer as in the quote. There is a max of 5 alignment/fame points in one day. After you complete an alignment mission, you get a fame point. That fame point will count UP to 20 hours. After 20 hours the fame point is free and you can get another tip for that fame point slot.

Each completed tip will give you 1 Fame Point.

It is a marker so you know that you've completed a counting tip towards your alignment.

Look at this Paragonwiki page for the answer.