Improve Teleport Travel Power

Just an idea for the Teleport Travel Power. Not really sure what the logistics would be for changing it or if there are even enough people who would care, but figured I'd throw it out here and see.

Instead of a click point click system for teleport, have it be a toggled ability. While toggled it could allow you to simply click where you want to teleport for the entire time that it's active. It would also eliminate the forced hover time, since the hover would always be on unless you click the toggle off, thus giving each person the ability to choose when and where they're sitting in the air not moving.

I...actually like this.

BUT (as always), sometimes you need to just use Teleport instantaneously and don't need it repeatedly (yes, some people do actually use it for combat to leapfrog from group to group, including other uses).
Secondly, I don't think there really is a way to set up a power to work in this way or at the least, there doesn't already exist an example of it, which then brings Standard Code Rant into play. Perhaps with a screwy retooling of the click-to-move methodology, it could be done but yeah...

It's possible to set up a bind so that holding down shift and left clicking teleports you.

Well, that's not really the same though, because the bind is effectively activating the power at the same time as you click.

Simple fix:

1. Bind teleport to your 'F' key in the options menu.
2. Press F
3. Click your destination
4. Teleport
5. Repeat

I'd rather see TP changed to be dependent on whether or not you're in combat.

TP in combat - teleports you to the enemy you have targeted, within X range, or if you have no foe targeted but are still in combat, in the direction you're facing up to the maximum range of the power or the nearest obstruction (wall, for example). That gives it maximum combat flexibility, allowing you to use it to quickly enter or exit a fight, just as it does now, without any of the clicking or hovering.

TP out of combat - brings up a map covering the range of your teleport ability. You select waypoints on the map, then activate the power and automatically teleport to each waypoint (1s per point, just enough time for a fast, snazzy animation). Map can be expanded in zones to allow for chained TP over several miles, with an appropriate endurance cost, of course. This makes it easier to use as a travel power, and a heck of a lot more like comic books (in my opinion).

I find that the two second cast time for teleport is what is most annoying. It would be much more enjoyable if the animation took a half-second, where the biggest limitation to teleport being the endurance cost.

I don't need a toggle. I just don't need to two seconds to do some sort of chicken-wing gesture with my arms.

Yes, BaBs. Chicken-Wing.

They just need to get rid of that ridicilous animation we have now. Would like Map teleporting but I don't see that happening as that might cause unforeseen problems(map is 2d, environment not)

Accelerating the animation would be fabulous. The delay time to *actually* move is disconcertingly long. You can fall a LONG WAY after clicking teleport before you actually STOP FALLING (which has ground impact damage implications).

I for one would not mind a rebalancing of the power in which shorter animation (and shorter delay before moving via teleport) also reduced endurance cost and range per teleport. That way the time and endurance to move a given amount of distance stayed the same ... but the teleport power would feel more responsive (as a result of being more clicky).

Faster, shorter hops at the same endurance cost per foot travelled.

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...

Something that could be done to make teleport much better is keep it mostly the same, BUT instead of falling after a few seconds, you stay floating untill you move. For instance teleport would look like this- after you teleported a hover flag would activate on you but in coding a move cancel tag would be put on the hover effect.

Ya know, when I teleport someone in motion, they continue to be in motion at the destination, but I have to do the funky calisthenics everytime I port myself.

Great topic for the OP's user name.