Flight.. The 5th slowest travel power..

_Flash_Fyre_ · 01-15-2005 05:00 PM

I'm just calling it like I see it

jazz2099 · 01-16-2005 12:44 AM

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I'm beginning to see why Statesman has survived so many skirmishes and wars, HES THE LAST ONE TO ARRIVE.

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LOL, good stuff.

Also, I love your sig, I was dying from laughter when I heard it the first time.

_Phantom · 01-16-2005 03:51 AM

I'm not sure if this is off topic or not but I must agree - Flight is definitely the slowest way to travel. My main is a level 50 and has never taken a travel power (and never will until they come out with jetpacks or vehicles or something). All I've ever used is sprint (2 run SO's) and swift (1 run SO) and i can still out pace the flyers. I actually raced a flyer once from the Perez Park gate in Steel Canyon to the Icon in Steel Canyon and not only did I win but had enough time to pull out the old newspaper emote - boy was he twisted! And as far as flyers having the advantage in safety - I have to disagree - between being able to go invisible and knowing the city streets so well (I've been running around them for 50 levels) I can move just as safely and swiftly any where i go (even when exempted down to the lower levels) as any flyer can. So I would have to agree with the pro-flyer crowd - Flight definitely needs a little extra speed thrown on to it. Just my two cents.

Rooftop_Raider · 01-16-2005 09:45 AM

Unless you put alot of extra slots in Sprint/Swift/Hurdle I'd beat you with Fly.

Steel_Guardian · 01-25-2005 05:19 AM

Grand! That picture of Supes grinning at how safe he is in the ionosphere- it's killin' me! LOL! Stars for joo!

Starfox_NA · 01-25-2005 05:43 PM

To the OP: I have a Perma-Elude scrapper, and I SO wish there was no end crash. The reason? I can't use Fly and Hover!

Fly is simply the best power for recon, and when you get to the more complex mision maps, like Oranbega. No other movement power compares to it.

And if you want other powers that are equal to Fly in speed, that's easy:

Siphon Speed
Inertial Reduction
Hurdle (yes, a pool power that you can take at level 6 matched Fly for speed)

Yet these powers are in no way as good as Fly - the first two especially so.

Pyroprince · 01-29-2005 09:25 PM

with hover i used to be able to work out getting to a hollows mish....

Vangreal · 01-30-2005 01:46 PM

I have flight on most of my characters since it is the one super power that provides a nice view and fun, but I just took super jump for my scrapper. WOW, way more fun. Then I tested out jump and superspeed on my main, again, just as much fun as flight, but without being a hassle. Something needs to be done to flight, either lower the cost, remove the -acc, make it faster, or remove the speed cap. Did they need to give flight FOUR negatives just to balance it against the others? No

Flight-Feel like a hero? ......uhhhh
Jump-Feel like a hero? Heck ya!! I can jump entire city blocks man!!
SuperSpeed-Feel like a hero? Did you see me blow past those guys?
Teleport-Feel like a hero? Hell yeah man, no ya see me, now ya don't!

Lycanus · 02-02-2005 07:22 AM

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I have flight on most of my characters since it is the one super power that provides a nice view and fun, but I just took super jump for my scrapper. WOW, way more fun. Then I tested out jump and superspeed on my main, again, just as much fun as flight, but without being a hassle. Something needs to be done to flight, either lower the cost, remove the -acc, make it faster, or remove the speed cap. Did they need to give flight FOUR negatives just to balance it against the others? No

Flight-Feel like a hero? ......uhhhh
Jump-Feel like a hero? Heck ya!! I can jump entire city blocks man!!
SuperSpeed-Feel like a hero? Did you see me blow past those guys?
Teleport-Feel like a hero? Hell yeah man, no ya see me, now ya don't!

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I don't know, I think it is a personal flavor thing.

For Blood Rose, my Kodachi Kuno clone, Superjump is great, I have it to the point now that I can finally jump between those two skyscrapers across the river from each other in Founder's. Roof-hopping is excellent fun.

For Castle Rat, I'm aiming at getting 8 passives (Quickness, Dodge, Agile, Lucky, Swift, Hurdle, Health, Stamina) and no travel powers. I may, possibly, get hasten, but I've had bad experiences with it, so probably not on that character.

For Dorsal, I'm definitely taking Hasten (she's currently a Katana scrapper...at least until a hand-centric unarmed style gets added to scrapper) since I don't like making myself redraw and I want superspeed (were-mako)

For Medusae, though, nothing gives me more of a laugh or thrill than seeing my valley-speaking gorgon flitting around over the head of my brother's character as she calls up earthquakes, volcanic vents and turns people ot statues.

Fly is decent enough from what I can tell.

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somedamnthing · 02-05-2005 01:18 AM

A teammate of mine said it all tonight:

haha that was great! Flying out of nowhere to save the day!

Flying does, in fact, rule. Boost the speed output by 20% and I'm all sorts of happy

sothoth · 02-05-2005 08:31 AM

In all the months I have been playing, one thing I have noticed, when teamed with a bunch of people with different travel powers, we all show up at the same location within 10 seconds of each other.

and hover being pointless, try this bind
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showf...o=&fpart=1