Villians how to fix redside

I'm not allowed to be as sensational and ridiculous as she is? Why not?

I guess that was lost on you, or I was more subtle than I intended.

My real point is: It's not that simple, sorry.

No, just poor game design. They obviously mixed things up between factions when they launched Going Rogue, giving both sides their good and bad factions, so restricting Loyalists only to Villain content, and vice versa, is pretty unfair (and doesn't make a lot of sense when you have terrorists running heroic missions and wholesome (albeit likely ignorant) heroes who want to save the day and help people being forced to do villainous missions.

I don't know, I've never been to D.C.

Thanks for making my point.

Except that people are not exactly bound to blue side and they can visit red side with their vigilantes and create new characters there at any time. Adding unbalanced updates would just draw villains away from red side and make it even less populous than it currently is.

Which is why the current content additions are pretty good. They seem to have a nice balance going between both sides.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

Only when they start helping the Resistance take down Tyrant

Because Scott is such a hero...

Owait

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

It's sensible game design - First Ward is 20-29, so it's over halfway to 50, which means that the content needs to be moving towards the Incarnate content, where everyone is fighting Tyrant and the loyalists.
The 1-20 GR content already pushes every Praetorian avatar into a position of resistance to Tyrant and his dictatorship - so it's natural that the First Ward storyline would fit with that situation, and have the contacts be Resistance or Resistance allies.
The higher the level of the content, the closer it has to be the Incarnate storyline, where we're helping the Resistance smash Tyrant and his loyalist forces.

Ah, is it (the level range)? I admit I know next to nothing about it. Yeah that makes sense. The Responsibility arcs (my favorite) had my character going from idealistic superhero, to good person doing some things she wasn't sure she understood but was sure were for the greater good, to (right at the end) telling Cole to his face, "I believe in the Paradise, I don't believe in you."

Basically still an idealist, wanting to attain that beautiful paradise and protect its people, but not capable of supporting the man she used to believe in so strongly.

In her heart, she's a Loyalist, but loyal to Praetoria and its people, not to Cole.

And makes the levels 1-20 game pointless. Every more moral decision you made there doesn't matter, as in the end everyone is funneled down the same path. Which, ironically, is ONE of the complaints about COV.

Also NOTHING you do there determines in anyway shape or form whether you will be a hero or villain. You can choose to do nothing but support tyrant and murder the innocent people of Praetoria all throughout GR and still choose to be a hero.

Which makes one wonder what the point of all those special system were when they were planning to just dump morality choices for the rest of the game. GR probably could have been out sooner with more content had they just dumped the morality system from the beginning and created arcs that lead to the path we already are on.

He might have to be dealt with later on if he does something crazy

For example, Vanessa DeVore has been revealed as the guiding force behind the Resistance, and Calvin Scott is just their military commander - but now that Vanessa is dead, and the influence she had over Calvin might be lost, and rather than looking at the bigger picture, he might decide to try and get Aurora back by launching an attack on Mother Mayhem's asylum, with the justification that it has to be done at once because without Vanessa to shield the Resistance from the Seers, the entire movement is in danger - plus, there's also the possibility that Penelope Yin, who also happens to be in the aylum, might be lined up as replacement for her mother as the protector of the Resistance from the loyalist thought police.
So we'd naturally help with the assault on the Asylum, but run into problems with Calvin if it became clear that the only way to defeat Mother Mayhem was to kill her, meaning that Aurora would also be lost forever - and the Resistance commandos that had helped us attack the asylum would probably side with their leader, rather that the visitors from Primal Earth.
And what better place would there be for Calvin's obsession to tip over into madness in the very place where it all began, and faced again with the monster who stole his wife? The final fight would see us versus Mother Mayhem and her Seers, plus Calvin Scott and his Resisatnce commandos, with Penelope Yin and possibly Katie Douglas helping us - it'd be insanity in the asylum

When we defeated them, Mother Mayhem and Calvin could both be fatally wounded, but Praetor Tilman's consciousness would have been destroyed with some kind of mental overload in a last desperate attempt to stop us, so that would allow Calvin and Aurora to share a moment before they both died.
Penelope Yin could then lead the Resistance, which would now have a hgue army of libertaed Seers to help them, and the last major hurdle between us and Tyrant would be gone - we'd have turned back his invasion, and fought our way through his evil empire, defeating his Praetorian Guard one after the other, leaving only Praetor Duncan and her boyfriend in their tower in Nova Praetoria for the final showdown

He covered that last part when he said "bad game design".

Still... my full loyalist Power Division power-mad ego-centric villain who for now kills for Cole ... That toon will only do anything against Cole if there is a final gain in power to be had. Changing the story earlier on to make that toon anti-Cole is not working and destroying the alignment part of 1-20.

When the devs designed CoV, players complained that they were forced to serve a crazed dictator and his evil organization - they took that feedback onboard when designing GR and the Paretorian storyline, and now players are complaining about being forced to not serve a crazed dictator and his evil organization

What about taking down the entire dictatorship to leave Praetoria open to a new ruler?

Then finding out the way to become an incarnate is to betray Cole should work nicely.

With Aurora cursing Calvin in her last moments over the monster he'd become? And/or Calvin finding out that Aurora was Mother Mayhem's dominant personality all along? Either way, Scott deserves the worst he can get.

I still like the idea of him sneaking up to Anti-Matter's space station now that Keyes himself is down, and deciding "**** it, I'll nuke 'em all from orbit", and getting his own raid in response though, personally. It's (a)very Calvin Scott-ish, and (b)an excuse to have an epic battle in front of a space window overlooking the Earth.

In CoV, you kowtow to a 3rd world despot who can't keep his mancrush under control. In Praetoria, you honorably serve a man trying desperately to keep humanity from wiping itself out.

An evil dictatorship is still an evil dictatorship

Who also has no problem with wiping out every hero in Paragon. Or brainwashing the Resistance. Or just being maniacal in general.