Travel power change for I16?

Gah. Thought it was too good to be true. They should do it anyways.

only if you have the eleventy billion month vet badge.

Yes. Yesssssss. (Gaze upon Nethergoat's Nelson image ye newer players, and despair.)

(Stroke Victim Smiley agrees with me.)

Ya I believe it is intended in mids. I wonder if CO proves successful if we'll see more ways to unlock "real" travel powers (ie not safeguard temps) at lvl 6 rather than just the 23yr vet badge.

It's only with the 60 month badge but...

Gates are down!

In celebration for all the great new changes in i16, I'll be working to get other players to help with a "Raptor Pack" shuttle once i16 drops in order to teleport character to the gate of the Shadow Shard so that they can get a Raptor Pack.

The plan is to put a character with Recall Friend at the Green Line Tram in Steel Canyon, one at the Peregrine Island Ferry in Talos Island, and one at the Dimensional Gate into the Shadow Shard in order to form a teleport circuit for moving characters the the Shadow Shard for the purchase of Raptor Packs.
The characters at the Ferry and that green line can move into Peregrine Island and Talos respectively to teleport characters back to the Green Line tram. (It should be easy enough for them to "fly" back to the Yellow line if they desire - or possibly we could gain another character to be stationed at the Yellow Tram in Steel Canyon for tp back to the Yellow-line rail-head.

Who knows on what server(s) or when I'll show up to get this thing going, but I'm planning on proving 10K influence to (at least some) characters under level 14 so that they can by a Raptor Pack in the Shadow Shard.

I'll be using the [Help] Channel to recruit characters with Recall Friend and to announce that we are in place and ready to go!

If anyone is up for helping out with this in any manner, go for it.
I don't want to take the glory from the honorable Taxi-bot continents, but I wanted to at least bring this up!

There's nothing like hitting the skies at level 1 with a brand spanking new Raptor Pack full of fuel.

Of course, I don't want to discourage any "naked noob"/level 1 races to Peregrine Island. Rewarding all participants with a "Raptor Pack" seems a great reward for cheap!

(reposting this info from elsewhere, but it seems a good place to post it and I don't know how to do good links to other specific post using this new system yet - bah!)

(btw, you crafty villains could always go to Grandville at level 1 and get Raptor Packs for 10k - well, as soon as there were Raptor Pack vendors at least - as there was never a hazard gate on Grandville.
Also heroes and villains could both get raptor packs before level 10 (I think as early as level 5) by successfully completing an Atlas Park bank/newspaper safeguard/mayhem mission.
And there is that little known - pay as you go - flight pack booster that you can strait out buy and use at level 1 - not that I think that this is worth paying real dollars for.)

Devs, read this thread. Make the change. We will all love you for it.

It's not a bug, but a feature, for the 60mo Veteran Reward. I believe the next release is planned to have a button to toggle whether you have the 60mo reward or not.

You owe me a new keyboard.