Provide travel powers earlier

The "nay" argument revolves around "You can just get a flight pack at level 1" and the "yay" argument revolves around "Inexperienced players are unaware that they should save the inspirations (they're told to use in the tutorial) to sell at the market and then trek across a lvl 40+ zone to reach a portal to another zone where they can use that influence to buy a jet pack before treking back again to the newbie zones and starting the game. Heck, they might not even know about the pack from the Atlas bank mission if they wind up following the contact chain to the Hollows or something."

So what if you just started the game (post-tutorial) with a 1 hour jet pack and a pop-up window saying, in effect, "Hey, here's a one hour jet pack. You can get a two hour jet pack by completing the Atlas Park bank mission between levels 5-10"?

I guess we define "dumbing down" differently, Forbin. I'm not in favor of making the battles even easier than they've become. But, I see movement powers as, well, movement powers.

- I don't see how super jump is inherently dumber than combat jumping or sprint.
- I don't see how getting a movement power at level 6 is inherently dumber than level 14.
- I don't think getting movement powers earlier makes people dumber.
- I don't think getting access to movement powers without having to take an earlier pool power is dumb. I like the idea. The idea of being forced to take an earlier power before you could move all super-like just seemed like one of those arbitrary fun-reduction thingies (that's the technical term) that the previous dev team seemed to like to foist on players. Quite a few fun-reduction thingies have already been rolled back by the current dev team, and getting rid of one more would be welcome.

Might I propose an easy, clean answer? Put Jetpack Quartermasters next to BAB, Ms. Liberty, and Kalinda. There. Let them buy jetpacks from level one. Don't change powers at all otherwise. This lets them know that there are alternate methods of travel powers early on. Or even just someone telling about the safeguard missions and that travel powers are rewards for the early ones. Just one NPC TELLING the newbs some of this stuff would make things a lot cleaner.

Aww I wanted to start throwing slots into my travel power at level 5 ^_^,

It seems to me that people consistently forget that it's not new players asking for these powers most of the time, but rather veteran players who just got done taking a character to 50 and can't stand walking again. I, for one, know that I never even considered having travel powers at all when I was a new player, and didn't even believe we needed one until I actually tried Super Jump, and even that only because Samurai Jack doesn't fly. Jump good.

I don't really mind being able to get travel powers at an earlier level, but I honestly don't see why we need to get them at level 1. Let people walk around a bit, especially new players. It's part of the game, and it doesn't exactly involve all that much walking at first.

Here's what confounds me - on the one hand, people complain that there's no-one ever in the streets, people never meet and the game feels incredibly empty. On the other hand, people are requesting more and more ways to stay off the streets, making the game feel incredibly empty. As far as I'm concerned, I say let players walk the first six levels. It's not like it'll kill them. Too much.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I'd love for them to do this, but I don't see it ever happening.