Ouroboros Temp Power

So here's a thing.

With I19 around the proverbial corner, we get to make wild and silly and sometimes accurate and sensible guesses as to what's coming but here's something that's bugging me.

I've often queried why the Ouroboros power is a temp power and nobody's ever been able to properly answer it.

Now we're seeing a shattered Ouro. One note from the I19 overview is this:

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

I bet when Ouroboros Crashes into the sea, Mender Silos moves the entire operation into a Motel 6 in Dallas.

I think they only put it in the temporary powers category for certain organizational purposes, just like they did with the origin-based power (which used to be a temporary power, but is now permanent), as it is easier to control it.

EDIT: Baka, you are a genius. (And yet that sentence is a contradiction!)

Also, aside from Brawl, Rest, and Sprint, other inherent powers only ever seem to be tied to veteran status or account upgrades.

I'm betting it's a map that is unique to the Incarnate unlock arc.

Interesting thoughts. I was thinking along the same lines after seeing the screen shots that Oro maybe altered some in the upcoming issues.
The one problem is keeping the way open for letting players do past arcs they may have missed for badges or the story.

From a gameplay standpoint, the zone Ouroboros would probably be left unaffected. The devs have never really taken a zone away, right? Since there's no other way to reach the flashback system without a supergroup base, taking it away would have no positive yield.

And story-wise, the Ouroboros we teleport to may be in a time before it was attacked. It's only logical, right? If you have the resources, use 'em, including using yourself from the past.

No inherent powers are 'earned' by the player, so to speak. Unless you count EAT ones, they are all tied to stuff relating to your account. If everything was correct, Ouro should really be an Accolade power, but meh.

Personally, I don't know why Ouroboros simply doesn't send you back to the Zone that you came from. This is the way base portals work, so the mechanic exists. The only thing I can think of is that in some way the Task Forces or the Flashbacks overwrite the info about where you entered Ouroboros from, and thus the devs had to provide multiple exits. But bases can have a Pillar of Ice and Fire for Flashbacks, and AFAIK that doesn't effect anything. So I don't really know.

When the Hero and Villain Lounges came out, I thought it would be a good idea to replace Ouroboros's travel capability with that. Then add a Rogue/Vigilante Lounge that didn't have a Merit Vendor or anything, but would exit to the same basic zones as Ouroboros. The Lounges would definately be more useful if you could teleport to them as with Ouroboros.

I imagine they may add flashback functionality to the Midnighter's Club if they had too, it does have one of those pillars.

Or you may have to visit Ouroboros through a time-travel pillar, like was previously said.

Ouroboros has been bought out by Starbucks. When this becomes public your Ouro portal will present you with a perky barista who will sell you a special inspiration that temporarily boosts your endurance recovery AND the recharge times of your powers.

The Dev team will use this opportunity to lay another easter egg as the NPC sales people with the inspirations will strongly resemble certain ladies from Questionable Content.

I've been having mixed feelings about the issues for a while now. MA was very shaky and I still don't like how they executed it. But I digress.

Might I point out that the two most prominent examples of large zone-changes were, pre-overhaul, almost completely barren and without real purpose on their own. The Rikti Crash Site and Faultline both had no self-contained storyarc contacts within and nothing special, then suddenly had a full-fledged military force and a fairly-rebuilt city with housing, respectively.

Whereas Ouroboros has quite a few things inside of it, including mini-taskforce contacts. So changing a zone like that (if we even call it much of a zone) would probably be a big "no-no" in the dev's book.

But hey, I could be wrong, right?

EDIT: also, sorry for such a big chunk of text for two simple thoughts. I have to work on keeping things succinct.