Lightside/Darkside combination during quests

[Knightmage Bael]

Playing a character who's darkside, but doing stuff for the ithorians (to be fair, there's a lot of darkside options for him over czerka, and I am 'roleplaying' my character things czerka is meaningless, caring only for mundane material things, as opposed to an offer from chodo regarding the force, my character places that above materials and profits).

Anyway, can I assault the Czerka mainframe? Or do I -have- to get b4d4?

(p.s. playing a character who has lost herself during the wars, and didn't realize it until much later. after returning from exile she falls into old habits, and goes back down the path to the darkside. Instead as before where she did it to help the republic, now she has no goal beyond revenge. so after talking to her friends, and comments from others, in addition to realizing kreia is manipulating her, she's trying to change. goal is to prestige as sith, then convert to light side. haha.)

((Also, why is it so much easier to gain lightside points over darkside? Seriously, it takes so much random acts of cruelty - most of which Kreia despises, and a few light side choices alone go through half my darkside bar.))

[Emmental]

You'll still need to do the b4-d4 thing as far as I know.

If you get points of the opposite alignment to what you currently are the penalty is severe. It would be the same if you were light side and got some dark side points.

One kind of minor thing with this is if you get light mastery as a sith lord I don't think you get the stat bonus.

[Knightmage Bael]

Originally posted by Dave:

You'll still need to do the b4-d4 thing as far as I know.

If you get points of the opposite alignment to what you currently are the penalty is severe. It would be the same if you were light side and got some dark side points.

One kind of minor thing with this is if you get light mastery as a sith lord I don't think you get the stat bonus.

Well as a sith lord I still get more dark side points than light side. Overall it seems to me that its just way easier to get dark side points than light side.

As for the last part of what you said: not sure, never gone the opposite of my prestige I don't think.

edit: just maxed out lightside as a sith marauder, getting the bonus of +3 str.

[Emmental]

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

Originally posted by Dave:

You'll still need to do the b4-d4 thing as far as I know.

If you get points of the opposite alignment to what you currently are the penalty is severe. It would be the same if you were light side and got some dark side points.

One kind of minor thing with this is if you get light mastery as a sith lord I don't think you get the stat bonus.

Well as a sith lord I still get more dark side points than light side. Overall it seems to me that its just way easier to get dark side points than light side.

As for the last part of what you said: not sure, never gone the opposite of my prestige I don't think.

edit: just maxed out lightside as a sith marauder, getting the bonus of +3 str.

Nice that opens up some more interesting stories without worrying about a penalty. Turning from one side to the other.

[Silvaren]

KotOR 2 is interesting if you look close to motivation of your character. You can do good things in cruel intention and vice versa. For example - playing dark side you help Chodo because he told you that he can heal you. So you act from selfish motivation. And if you are playing light side and talk to both Lorso and Chodo you will consider that ithorian's restoration effort and similar projects are bringing Republic to bancruptcy realy fast while Czerka have maybe not very leagal but helpful way to recover materials from Telos and make some extra money to do restoration "the Czerka way" but overall you are helping the Republic. It's a grey area through most of the game. Kreia, Go-To, Atris and others will tell you about "the bigger picture".

I think even on harderst difficulty level this game is too easy to worry about little stat bonus from max lightside points and in case of marauder I think it's better to have +1d8 damage from dark side than +3 strength (which is +1 to hit +1 to dmg or +2 +2 if you get even value in stregth).

[Knightmage Bael]

Originally posted by Silvaren:

KotOR 2 is interesting if you look close to motivation of your character. You can do good things in cruel intention and vice versa. For example - playing dark side you help Chodo because he told you that he can heal you. So you act from selfish motivation. And if you are playing light side and talk to both Lorso and Chodo you will consider that ithorian's restoration effort and similar projects are bringing Republic to bancruptcy realy fast while Czerka have maybe not very leagal but helpful way to recover materials from Telos and make some extra money to do restoration "the Czerka way" but overall you are helping the Republic. It's a grey area through most of the game. Kreia, Go-To, Atris and others will tell you about "the bigger picture".

I think even on harderst difficulty level this game is too easy to worry about little stat bonus from max lightside points and in case of marauder I think it's better to have +1d8 damage from dark side than +3 strength (which is +1 to hit +1 to dmg or +2 +2 if you get even value in stregth).

Yeah, well I was doing it for story purposes. As your post suggested, the duality of almost every event your choice can present makes roleplaying value very high.

[Knightmage Bael]

Darth Sion had some different dialogue in the end because of my choice, I'm taking it. I don't want to spoil it, but its pretty interesting. I take it being a sith and turning to the light side is something he envies.