Goin Rogue Character Changes

If the devs can add more content and some more interesting strike forces to the mix, then the Rogue Isles will be able to keep more people around. And I wouldn't be able to switch my main even if i wanted to... invuln/ice tank. Not until they put ice melee into the brute melee set mix.

As to the whole 'redside being empty' thing, it is odd. I have 33 characters on Champion, 3 are blue alts. The rest are red, with two or three name holders. There was a while where red was busy, but that fell off about the time that a bunch of major VG leaders left.

As far as 'I don't play on red because it's dead'...it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are a living player. If you venture over, invite somebody else, or link up with other players, there will always be warm bodies.

Currently it's having the downside of social momentum; people go where people are. Where people are not, people don't go, so there are fewer people in that place that people don't...you get the idea. Of course there's a threshold, and there's a point where there's TOO many people, and people look for 'roomier' spots. With a small population, though, this isn't currently the case. But if there's a big influx with GR, it may come up.

The whole 'grey' thing puts something new into the mix, too: with the lack of a red/blue dichotomy, people will play content all over, wherever they feel like at the moment. Rogues may head to Paragon, but vigilantes can visit the isles when ever they please. ...And the redside has same darned fun arcs, so where there's fun in a game, there are players.

I am actually thinking about playing more than 1 night a week now. Not sure if I'm going to make changes to existing charecters by renaming and rerolling though.

Four things are drawing me back. I was really considering cancelling my Sub then they announced GR. Was still considering cancelling then they announced merged markets, this is going to make me stay.

1. Market Merger and the ability to trade and gift no matter what your character is

2. The whole alignment shift deal

3. New Story lines (This is big)

4. The ability to improve my max lv characters.


~MR

Potentially stupid question time:

I saw a couple of people in this thread mention something like "I'm switching my scrapper to a brute" or "my defender is gonna become a corr" (examples). Did I miss some announcement somewhere, or are these people misinformed, or just stating their position poorly? I'm under the impression that when you switch sides, your AT doesn't change, and therefore your damage modifiers, etc., don't change either. All you're doing is running around Grandville as a Tank, with tank defense numbers, tank damage numbers, tank inherents, etc.

Definitely not in Closed Beta at the moment, so I've got no idea what GR actually does, but I've read every announcement and write up about it, and I've not seen anything to suggest anything other than what I've concluded.

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Truth to tell (and its my shame to admit it), aside from Sickness and Stupify, I never kep up with Disturbed, but a couple of weeks ago I hear Inside the Fire on the radio and decided to check out Indestructible. Now, I have nine songs from the album on my playlist, which I will now listen to until I learn every lyric (learning song lyrics and putting caps on pens are my compulsion). Between Disturbed and a band called Halestorm (thanks for that one by the way, Cherry), I have a pretty full playlist.

I plan on taking my main redside for badges, then back again. I'm toying with the idea of turning my now defunct Inv/SS Tanker into a SS/Inv Brute (Tankers bore me to death and Scrappers ain't getting SS anytime soon), but my last experience with a SS/Inv Brute didn't go all that well.

I've been strongly considering re-rolling Phantoma Storm (Ill/Storm Controller) to an Electric/Storm Corruptor.

Have we hear what the benefits will be of not switching sides, (hero stays on blueside, villain stays on redside)?
Also what about sg and vg memberships, I have over a mill prestige on my main, but she is also my badgewhore toon would love to get those redside badges.