I play villains WAY more than heroes. But for reasons I'll get into in a minute. First I'd like to address srmalloy: WOW THIS HIT A NAIL ON THE HEAD!
Not as a reason I don't play redside, but as a reason I play MISSIONS redside. I tend to RP bad guys who are villains. My villains tend to be old school Saturday morning bad guys with some good old fashioned Marvel comics / Batman's rogues gallery grim twistedness. I run the streets Redside. I love that I don't have to discern targets. EVERYONE is targetable. I love the look and feeling I get of having a mastermind (teenage necromancer or his granny the demon summoner) use the walk animation to stroll casually down a busy street while sending pets to maul and dismantle any and all bystanders. I love dropping out of the sky onto the top of Fort Darwin with a low-level brute or dominator and seeing how fast I can mop the floor with all those peppermints before I'm overwhelmed or my rage is sated. I. Love. It.
What I don't like is the stories. My main is an extroverted teenage necromancer with sociopathic tendencies who only wants to get powerful enough to make his family healthy again. Half my toons are his family members. That half is not prone to being minions or flunkies. They're nightmares-in-the-making. They same level of greatness our hero toons are destined for.... our villain toons are on that path to infamy!
I may be barking at the moon if nothing can be done about it, but if I had my druthers, it'd go like this:
City of Villains would feel like a blend of three places:
1. Comic book Gotham with a very serious Penguin who controls the underworld
2. The old school island of Genosha with Magneto at the helm.
3. Latvia with Dr. Doom reigning at his peak.
Sorry for writing so much.
I think Redside is dope. I think it is a more robust RP environment.
I just think at a certain level, you should get a bonus power that auto-casts FEAR on mobs that are more than 7 levels below you. People should cower in the streets when you go by.
I don't know. But Redside isn't the problem for me. Like SrMalloy said above, it's about how Redside treats Super-freaking-VIllains.
