Okay! How do I switch sides?

I've got a villain that I'm dying to take blue-side. How, in simple terms, do I do it?

1) Beat up level 20+ enemies for tips. Bosses in Sharkhead work best.
2) Do the tip missions for Rogue Points. Each mission is one point.
3) Watch out for Public Fame! When you complete a tip, you get 1 Public Fame (up to 5) and they last for 20 hours. No more tips if you fill up all 5!
4) After 10 Rogue Points, you get a Morality Mission dropped as a tip.
5) Complete the Morality Mission to turn Rogue.
6) Repeat for Hero (grabbing tips from Paragon City enemies)

First you get drunk. Then you find a nice college ki-

- Oh. Morality.

Do some street sweeping. Sweep until you get a "Tip". This is a mission that leads you to make a moral choice towards the end. Make the more redeeming missions. Eventually this will trigger A Series of Fortunate Events that let you become a Rogue. While as a Rogue, repeat this, and you will become a Hero.

Note that, as a Rogue, you can do Radio and Newspaper missions, but your ability to contact, er... Contacts... will be limited.

Good luck and congratulations on your redemption!

Alternatively, I hope you fail and forget you for joining the goodie two show blinder-alliance.

Play the game with a level 20+ alt.
You will get a "tip" as a drop.
Complete enough of these "tip" missions and you'll do a "Morality" mission which will move you one step closer to the other side. Once you've fully switched, you'll be a Villain or Hero.

Defeat enemies who are 20+ and you'll get special Tip missions that drop - they'll appear as a new tab on your contacts list.
Once you do 10 tips, you get a moral choice misison that will let you move one space on the alignment scale - from Villain to Rogue, for example - so you'll need to do the process twice if you want to switch over fully.

***Important Note***

The devs don't want people switching sides every couple of hours. Switching sides is a process that will take several days. You won't be able to do it on a whim.

I wonder if people who don't have Going Rogue can change alignment. You can get tips and earn alignment points without owning Going Rogue. I might have missed something, but I haven't seen anything that says you can't change alignment with I18 alone.

You can't - Tips are in I18, but morality missions are GR exclusive.

*MoG activated*

*pops popcorn, pulls up chair to watch cataclysmic battle*

All right... I've done 5 tip missions; I have 5 Public Fame icons stacked up, and my Rogue meter is at 50%. I keep fighting baddies, but no more tips are dropping. That sounds consistent with what I'm reading.

So it looks like it'll take 4 days:

Day 1: 5 Public Fame.
Day 2: 5 Public Fame + 1 Morality Mission. Now I'm a Rogue.
Day 3: 5 Public Fame.
Day 4: 5 Public Fame + 1 final Morality Mission. Now I'm a Hero.

Is that right?

Yes.

(Though it is 20 hours, not 24, so you COULD begin earning more Public Fame a bit sooner than a full day later. Also note that EACH slot has its own 20 hour timer.)

One thing I am not clear on is what exactly expires in 20 hours? If I get a tip and don't do it right away does it expire? Does the "credit" I get for doing a tip mission expire? I did not quite understand this aspect.

No.

You need to complete ten Tip missions to fill your alignment bar, at which point you get a morality mission that allows you to either reaffirm your dedication to what you already are or shift one step to the other side. (Villain -> Rogue, Rogue -> Hero, Hero -> Vigilante, Vigilante -> Villain)

Any successfully completed tip mission fills up one slot in your Fame bar for 20 hours. If you don't have an empty Fame slot when you complete a tip mission, you do not get credit on your alignment bar.

Is there any benefit/detriment to just staying technically a "rogue" caught halfway between hero and villain?