Morality choices in morality tips

One thing struck me as odd last night during my Rogue morality tip. A certain NPC in the mission offered me a certain job that would clearly be crossing the moral event horizon. The mission automatically scripts you as saying "screw you, not crossing that line" and then beating everyone up. But, what if my character was just that depraved he'd do it (in this case he wasn't, but still)?

So, you know those Praetorian morality missions? What if we made the morality tips more like those? In that mission, give me the option. If I chose to accept the offer, It'd be equivalent to denying the alignment change reward, thus staying villain, and I'd finish the mission by completing that job. If I rejected it, I'd play the mission like I do now. It'd make more sense than just saying at the end "Nope, don't consider me less evil even though I just saved everyone".

This would, of course, require a fair chunk of work. About equal to writing up another 12 missions (I'm correct in my guess there's 12 morality tips total?) plus possibly cutscenes and a little bit of other work. It'd probably make the morality tips single player if that sort of thing requires it to be from a code standpoint. But, I believe the change would be worth it, as morality tips really don't seem to carry the weight that Praetorian morality missions have since there's no choice to make, even though Praetorians are rather whimsical about who they fight for.

Ok, but what if you're a Rogue (or whatever you are) doing Rogue tips and then reaffirm your Rogue morality? Well, logically, you wouldn't have a choice, the mission would go down the Rogue path. I mean, it wouldn't make sense to be a Rogue already, do more Rogue stuff, and then suddenly revert back to a Villain because there's no line to cross, whereas with changing alignments you're crossing a line.

Because that's not how morality missions work. If your character is that depraved, you shouldn't be doing that rogue morality mission. The whole point of the rogue morality mission is to prove you have scruples in what you'll do for money.

If you want depraved and evil, go do villain morality missions, or even some of the vig ones

Okay, i didn't quite say that right, my bad. I meant the 10 tips thing. I suppose I could support the choice as a way to not change your alignment, as opposed to just picking the reward at the end

Thing is, giving you the 'Stay a Villain' or 'Go Rogue' choice in the mission would, in my opinion, work a lot better than the 'Do all this and then dont change anyway' thing we have at the moment.

For example, one of the Rogue missions?

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I got asked to commandeer a Zeus Titan and blow stuff up with it. The 'Villain Choice' instead of the Rogue.
How much cooler would it be that, instead of automatically going 'Nah, screw you!' and then at the end going 'Oh, nevermind, im still a Villain', you go 'Actually...yeah, t'hell with the morals, that sounds like FUN!' and getting a temp power that turned you into a Titan with all its powers for the remainder of that mission.

Coding intensive? Yes.
Worth it?
Giggity giggity, awwwwww yeeeah!

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I agree with Sam here.
If we put the choice *in* the mission they would turn solo-only. And since I do about half my tipping with friends, when we reach that stage we'll be forced to split up. No thanks.

There might be some sort of problem with the coding to allow for those on the already made morality missions--the Praetorian ones are forcibly single player, after all.

But, I'd love to see Morality missions like that.