Mental_Giant

Prepare to be very surprised. I wanted a 1 to 50 route through Praetoria, and I know that isn't happening, even though we haven't heard everything in GR.

I get the impression that the route to 20 is very similar and regardless of what actions you take you can still choose Red ore Blue side at 20.

We didn't learn much... some of the information was already released (Kinetic Melee and Electrical Control). I'm not sure what the point of the Q&A was if they were only giving us minor details about GR. I realize that I17 hasn't even launched yet, but obviously people want more information on GR since the Closed Beta hasn't even really started on that yet.

Understood, but to believe the intention of the devs is to have characters wait two years to do a full side-switch is unfathomable.

I, too, was shocked... was it a joke post?

I think this is just a simple misunderstanding. To interpret a "degree" as 1% makes no sense in this context.

I think he meant a real week of cooldown. Meaning: no matter if you're a Vet who can polish off the content in one night, or a n00b who has to do it over several days, once you move one notch over (from Hero to Vigilante, for example), you can't proceed on the path to the other side until a week elapses.

Where's the impact to PvP? Synapse would be working on PvP recipes or something if he wasn't doing badges?

This is accurate.

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.

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.

I was confused because the link in the original announcement just pointed to formspring. The EU post afterward had the correct link.

The Giant Eyeball is the best end-boss in the game.

The thread could have ended here.

That's huge... I hadn't heard that. Do you mean that Rogues can't start any Hero side contact, or just TFs? How will Oroborous work? That's a big obstacle to someone who wants to solo with their "Gray-side" toon in the opposite area.

For concept and RP reasons, this will always be true. I have several characters that are either Goody Goody or Irredeemable myself. My point is that beside those examples, there is very little reason to keep to one side. Unless the devs knock our socks off with the "Staying True" incentive, I see a large migration of toons to the middle ground.

They do get full access to both sides of the game. Every mission, every arc, every TF and SF, all trials, etc. The only thing that Rogues and Vigilantes do not have access to is the market from the opposite side... so Rogues can't use Wentworths and Vigilantes can't use the Black Market.

As mentioned above, the devs have said there will be a reason to "stay true", but we have no details on that. My suspicion is that it will be insufficient to keep most people from going Vigilante.