Capped Fly Speed?
By
StrykerX,
Posted on: 2010-09-03 09:02 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
The recent buffs to flight speed was at the base, not the cap.
It is highly unlikely that the cap will ever increase. So, if you want to argue that, go to Suggestions and add it to the pile of things that will never happen. 
The Fly base was accidentally increased 50% rather than 33%. It will be fixed eventually. For now, unenhance Fly puts you over the cap. When it gets fixed, it will put you slightly under the cap and one enhancement in the base slot will put you back over.
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Well, that makes sense at least. Just seemed very odd that Fly speed enhancements suddenly became completely useless. 
As for raising the cap, yeah, that debate rages ever onwards doesn't it? Personally I don't think it should be raised, the advantages of Fly far, far outweigh the slightly slower speed. On a lot of maps, Fly will get you there faster than SS or even SJ, just due to the ability to go in a straight line. It remains my favorite travel power, and only any build that has the room for a travel (thank you Ninja Run for giving me back to power slots!) I take Fly.
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As I understand it, they can't increase the cap on run speed because doing so overstresses the poor hamsters powering the servers. And since they want a set ratio between the various travel caps to reflect the ease of using those powers, they can't boost the others either.
Personally, I'd like to see all travel powers cappable with a single SO when unsuppressed, and have the suppressed speed boosted by enhancements so that if you slot 3 Fly or 3 Run you move about twice as fast while suppressed as you would unslotted... but that's just me.
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Can anyone direct me (my search-fu here has provided far too many old references) to any numbers for the new fly speeds after i18?
I picked up Fly on my new Mastermind (concept only, and besides, I love flying!) only to discover that at level 14 my fly speed is capped (with no enhancement) at 43.17 mph.
Now, don't get me wrong, I like the increase in flight speeds across the board. But it seems odd that we can't enhance that out of the box. All other travel speeds can have their speeds (or relative speeds in the case of TP) enhanced, so why not Fly?
Am I alone in the dark on this, or did others wonder the same thing?
For the record, I am basing my "capped" theory on two things: firstly that my Flight Speed in the power display is blue rather than green, and secondly that adding a green DO to the Fly power did nothing to change the speed - again, based on the actual numbers.
EDIT: And yes, I know that all the travel powers do have caps on their speeds, but this is about the lack of ability to enhance that speed (perhaps the Fly cap is too low?) rather than the fact that the cap exists.
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