Yes! Yes yes yes!

Agreed. Giving the wording I'm thinking it might be a "daily mission" type setup. As in the actual playtime required isn't to high but you're required to spread it out over a period of time. I'm not normally a big fan of daily quests but this is the sort of situation where it makes sense.

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Shame, was really looking forward to any questions about Task Forces (preferably more villain side) in the foreseeable future. Those are my bread and butter.

David Gerrold gives an example why.

This makes me sad

I pmed war witch after I read this as we never did get a mutation booster pack. So they really aren't finished with origins unless she basically just said its being included with issue 17 or going rogue. Or for whatever reason they just decided not to do a mutation pack. Which to me would be illogical since we have 4 out of the 5 origins completed.. Why not make one for all 5 origins?

edit: Disregard this post. It must of been a formatting issue with that webpage. The questions are posted/answered out of order.

I hope just the opposite. I'm paying more for this, I want there to be something to DO, not just whip through a few missions and go into "wait" mode.

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It makes a lot of us sad.

If I'm not mistaken, NCSoft holds all rights and privileges with anything written on this forum. In other words, part of the user agreement you agree to when you sign up for the forum is that NCSoft owns all content of your posts.

That way they could easily prevent the type of legal trouble Gerrold talks about in that article with unsolicited ideas and outlines.

One would hope so. In fact, has anyone bothered to do the math on this one? If they're shooting for 1% a week, that's 100 weeks to fully switch over. According to the Internet, there are 52 (and a bit) weeks in a year, so that's TWO YEARS to switch over ONE CHARACTER. This is so completely stupid that I have a hard time believing that's what they're really shooting for. Either that answer was misspoken and ambiguous, or we're reading it wrong.

I want to think it's what Futurias suggests, in that you can switch over much more easily than that, but will have to wait a week before you switch back. Which would make sense.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

True, they're going to want those with only a couple of characters to have plenty of content to run, but on the other hand, there are people with multiple accounts which are full on some servers. It's an edge case, I'm sure but I doubt the devs would want anyone stuck grinding out the same missions for a year to get all of their characters to the gray. Also, the consideration that after the first character or two, it could easily become repetitive. We have the new 1-20 Praetoria arcs, the Incarnate level, and whatever the unannounced content is.

"Something to do" and "takes months" are not mutually dependent, as Abrahms points out. You can well have a lot to do in terms of new content, but there's no real reason to lock side-switching behind ALL of it.

A wise man once said that the easiest way to ruin a pleasurable activity is to get paid to do it every day. This is what that line of thinking leads to, because the easiest way to sour people on good content is to force them to do it about 20 times in a row.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Whoa, where did you see 1%? I was under the impression that it would be a week per faction change. Hero to Vigilante, then Vigilante to Villain a week later.

I asked that question, and I was hoping for something more specific... now everyone's going to think you can do 1-50 in Preatoria.

No. One "degree" is not 1%, it's one "morality level", so to go from Hero to Villain it would take two weeks: Hero-> Vigilante {1 week} then Vigilante-> Villain {1 week}

To do a full roundtrip of Hero to Villain and back to Hero would take a month. That's not horrible.

This is the one question of mine the devs answered that I was happy with, because it gave us some useful new information.

It's not one percent, it was one degree.

I may have read or interpreted it wrongly, but I took "degree" to be more like steps of "alignment". If so it would be a step a week, so villain - rogue - hero would be two steps. Two weeks. Not unfair or tough at all.


If they are talking degrees as in angles, then to switch sides would be a 180. 180 actual weeks would be a long time in real time. Now 180 in-game weeks would not be nearly so bad, since days cycle fairly quickly.

I think we should get more clarification before ringing the bell and crying "Doom!" or "Bring out your dead!"

Also true, and no disagreement. I'm wildly speculating that the reason there are four rather large zones is a wide variety of missions available for the switching (as well as starting out). And, of course, a lot of this is dependent on what exactly Posi meant by about a week. Is that week to rockin' veterans used to speed TFs? The casual player? The noob?

In any case I'm sure we'd both be pleased with a happy medium between "soar through" and "slog forever".

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