Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
Actually, you guys are going about it completely wrong. The longer you wait to make ANY Paragon/Renegade decision, the harder they get.

See, P/R checks in ME2 work of a scaling system. They check your total P/R points, and compare it to the maximum P/R points you could have gotten with the availible dialogue decisions. So if you have had three conversations in the game thus far which had the potential to give Paragon points, then a simple Paragon check will require at least one of those decisions to have yielded Paragon points. If you had nine conversations which could give Paragon points before you go back to the same check, you will be required to have chosen the Paragon options 3 of those 9 times.

In short, the more you play, the more points every decision requires. And a lot of the higher level checks require massive percentage point investments. Unless you play strict Paragon or strict Renegade, there will be several of the important persuasions locked off to you (such as the Renegade check for Tali/Legion, the Paragon check for Jack/Miranda, and the Samara/Morinth decision).

The only way around this is with the added points for importing from ME1, which do increase your point total without increasing the corresponding totals for P/R checks.
With all due respect you're a bit late on that note. We ended up figuring that out a few posts ago actually