Safe the Villians

I think we need to do something to make villians better. Had more zones maybe, better missions, clear the islands a little biut, or all of them : P I fear when GR come out no one will be on the villians. There already barely anyone on, even when you could farm the MA missions there was barely any villians. On Double Xp Weeken that barely any villians. It is very sad. I know there will be a few, but they will never see each other.

Got any ideas on making the island better? I forgot to say, I want to kill and break anything I want as a villian : P That would be nice.

im on villains almost all the time, when GR comes out im gonna move all my toons to have villain affiliation. villains does lack the content and zone count heroside does. the zones in redside are better because they arent all super massive like heroes and hero contacts and tfs are such a drag because of the travel.

the only thing i would like to possibly see is villains getting more zones and access to the shadow shard. even just more contacts would be fine

Not going to get the "kill and break anything." More zones, zones that aren't decorated in Classic Garbage Dump, would be nice. I don't roll villains much any more because I'm tired of the same thing over and over again with almost no variety. At least hero side you can vary your contacts - a lot. Take faultline one time, skip it the next, take Striga one time, take Croatoa the next, go through Talos or IP - a lot more variety.

Maybe make a portal to take you to Atlas Park, but it ruled by EVIL! lol

AP + GC= level 1-5

Hollows= 5-16
King rows= 5-10

PP=7-16

Steel-C + Sky-C= 16-19
Boomtown=10-16 (I think, never go there lol)

Faultline= 15-21

TI + IP= 20-25
TV=24-26
DA=21=28 (Never go here)

Croatoa=30-25

Brickstown= 30-35
CF=30-40 (I don't go in red zones most of the time : P)

Vanguard-35-50
FF=45-40
Eden=35-40


PI=40-50
Firebase=40-50

Hive=45-50

There you go Techbot Alpha : D I think I got all the places and thier levels right : D. Oh you can turn off the xp to do them if you almost out level someone hehe

I must admit that I do fear the release of Going Rogue somewhat. Power is correct, there are a lot less villain characters than hero characters. I hear people complain about City of Villains "garbage-dump" style maps and the lack of content all the time. Most likely my fears are irrational and Going Rogue will do awesome things, but I always have my doubts. Curse my pessimistic attitude!

Personally though, I have plans to move some heroes over to villain side due to character concepts. I do enjoy redside more than blue, even though my main is a Tanker, though I'm worried everyone and their grandmother will move their Masterminds to Paragon because they've been clamoring for it for so long. =/

I think most people will just wind up as rogues or vigilantes doing both. That being said, I hate Blueside content. There's more of it, sure, but the story arcs all tend to involve you running across 5 different zones, and it's impossible to get the story arcs you want, other than the zone-specific ones. You can tell that Faultline, for example, is one of the new zones because it plays more like a villain zone than a hero one. All the arcs keep you in faultline.

two thoughts. 1. i suspect that redside may actually benefit from gr, as i suspect a lot of players will go for the content spread of being a rogue/vigilante and basically be able to play either side, i know several of my characters who dont have strongly set back stories that would preclude that will be going freelance, even if they stay in their original side until someone mentions doing something on the other side on the global channel.

second, blueside was developed first, as such it conformes more to older gaming conventions, like the hunt alls and fedexes, redside was developed with the knowledge gained from blueside, so the zones and tf''s are more concise. the reactions of people humorously help both validate and question both design styles, ya really cant please everyone can ya? I just say screw it and street sweep till around level 6-7(longer for stalkers, as they can snipe high value street bosses for quite a long while), a red conning boss and a few inspires will be half a level right there.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

It's always seemed to me that a compromise is what's necessary here. Redside needs more options, but Blueside needs better options. Given that Blueside is now and will probably always be more popular than Redside, even when you can hit up either on the same character, I really doubt we'll ever see a regular issue that's more focused on Redside content than Blueside. So I'd suggest the following: For every item of New Content contributed Redside, Blueside gets two or three comparable units of existing content revamped.

Redside finally gets Strike Forces to cover all level ranges? Blueside gets the Freedom Phalanx 6 updated to not suck. Redside finally gets some Trials (other than Respecs)? Blueside gets the Abandoned Sewers and Cavern of Transcendence fixed up so that people actually want to play them (Eden is popular enough on its own right now, although that may still be the relatively easy merit reward... it's been several years since I went on one, so I can't recall). Redside gets a second starting zone (possibly with content covering a level range comparable to Mercy Island and Port Oakes combined)? Blueside gets revamps of Boomtown and Dark Astoria. And of course, the ever popular Redesign the Shadow Shard as a Coop/Competative region satisfies both conditions.

Also the heroes get a different contact for each origin, villians don't even do that. That may help a little.