Vinjar Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Probably been brought up before but I wish this had been better implemented. I wish there better options when having to make decisions that effect your standing. It seems most of the Dark side choices have you act like a jerk as opposed to making a more diabolical choice. Sometimes I don't want to make either choice but am only given the two options. I propose a neutral option. Possibly a neutral faction--Cartel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atduncan Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Who the f#$^ would be worried about something as small as this, when this game needs so much. /thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalnar Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Not all "dark" choices are "evil". Some are just purely practical, or rational from military point of view. But ye, some are either pure greed, revenge or evil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KariTalRathe Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 It can feel you're playing a role not of your choosing when it comes to some of the dialogue options, but the best advice I can give is just to turn off the dark/light side indicator and go with the choice most appropriate to how you envisage your character. Yes there will be times when neither choice feels right for your character, but you know what? you can refuse the quest. That's the neutral option and really there are so many missions in game, that refusing some will not hold your character back one bit. And before anyone points out that some relics are dependant on light/dark side points. If that is more important to you than character development, then go ahead and meta game. I manage fine with my matrix shard relic and the PvP relic, neither of which have a moral requirement attached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddballEasyEight Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 (edited) Who the f#$^ would be worried about something as small as this, when I don't.. /thread There... fixed it for you... Edited December 17, 2012 by OddballEasyEight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaoslordfox Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 It can feel you're playing a role not of your choosing when it comes to some of the dialogue options, but the best advice I can give is just to turn off the dark/light side indicator and go with the choice most appropriate to how you envisage your character. Yes there will be times when neither choice feels right for your character, but you know what? you can refuse the quest. That's the neutral option and really there are so many missions in game, that refusing some will not hold your character back one bit. And before anyone points out that some relics are dependant on light/dark side points. If that is more important to you than character development, then go ahead and meta game. I manage fine with my matrix shard relic and the PvP relic, neither of which have a moral requirement attached. I see y our point here but at the same point Picking all dark side or light side choices does not equate to meta gaming when developing a character. Though I do think that they should add a neutral option as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinjar Posted December 17, 2012 Author Share Posted December 17, 2012 It can feel you're playing a role not of your choosing when it comes to some of the dialogue options, but the best advice I can give is just to turn off the dark/light side indicator and go with the choice most appropriate to how you envisage your character. Yes there will be times when neither choice feels right for your character, but you know what? you can refuse the quest. That's the neutral option and really there are so many missions in game, that refusing some will not hold your character back one bit. And before anyone points out that some relics are dependant on light/dark side points. If that is more important to you than character development, then go ahead and meta game. I manage fine with my matrix shard relic and the PvP relic, neither of which have a moral requirement attached. I totally forgot we could turn off the LS/DS indicator and was unaware (probably because I only look at armor) that there are pvp relics. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morolac Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I remember a quest on Ord Mantell where you are sent to recover stolen Medicine. The hitch: If you return the stolen medicine it's DS and if you let the thief keep it it's LS (yeah, it got stolen from the thief too. So you have to kill the new thievies to get the Medicine). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSStember Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Probably been brought up before but I wish this had been better implemented. I wish there better options when having to make decisions that effect your standing. It seems most of the Dark side choices have you act like a jerk as opposed to making a more diabolical choice. Sometimes I don't want to make either choice but am only given the two options. I propose a neutral option. Possibly a neutral faction--Cartel? Actually, many of the times you can make a light/dark choice, there is a third option that gives no points either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KariTalRathe Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 (edited) I see y our point here but at the same point Picking all dark side or light side choices does not equate to meta gaming when developing a character. Though I do think that they should add a neutral option as well. If you pick an option solely on whether the game mechanic tells you it is light or dark, then yes that is metagaming. I wasn't using 'metagaming' as a slight by the way; it's quite surprising (and interesting) the amount of options that one might think are 'light' yet result in 'dark' points and vice versa. Edit: Yes Morolac, I too returned the medicine to its rightful owner and was shocked when my character was given dark side points. It's a great example of how light and dark isn't always a direct correlation to what we might thing of as "good" and "evil". There are also some questionable decisions that don't penalise or reward at all and overall most missions don't have any consequence on your character's morality, at least that is the impression I get. On balance, I'm not sure there does need to be neutral options for every mission - there are only two sides in this war and sometimes our character's will have to make a stand about which side of the line they stand (you do this the moment you pick either Rep or Emp as your first character creation choice ofcourse). Don't get me wrong, I would love for there to be consequences for rolling up a Rep character who then accumulates dark side points. NPCs become less than friendly forcing me to do business on only disputed planets, for example. But being neutral, whether by accident or design, is pretty much free of consequences as far as I can tell and not something the game caters to. I understand that is your issue, but if you can look at it a little differently - i.e. there are degrees of light and dark and you can choose how far down each road you want to take your characters - then it does become easier to approach those two defined choices. Or at least that has been my experience from the way I have played it. Edited December 17, 2012 by KariTalRathe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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