Should Travel Powers be Inherent?

Until they give more options to pick from, having an inherent travel power won't really do much for most people. You'll still have to take powers that you either don't ever use just to get the ones you want, or something you'll rarely if ever use because there are no good choices left and you have to take something.

They would also have to give more enhancement slots throughout the leveling process, or tight builds would get even tighter.

If giving us inherent travel was part of a larger power pool overhaul, it would be worth doing, but until then, not really.

This is hardly something I want the devs wasting their precious time on. It's not broken. It doesn't need to be fixed. If you think travel powers are irrelevant, don't take them. If you're annoyed that you HAVE to take one to get at some other power you want... tough. This is how power pools work. I'd love to have Weave without taking a crappy pool attack power but that's the price. I don't really think it is an unreasonable one. Anyone who wants it has to pay the same price, so it's fair.

Inherent Fitness was a different story. So many people took Fitness that while it wasn't technically required, it was nevertheless viewed by nearly everybody as a "must have" to the point where it felt more like they only had three choices for power pools rather than four.

There are a couple of things to consider in all this.
First, the tempermanent travel powers require points to obtain. Sure, for those VIP memebers that save up the points it's "free", but if they use up too many points on such things, they're either gated by time to save up points again, or end up having to purchage points.

Premium members have to purchase the tempermanent travel powers.

Power Pools take up power slot choices and can end up being used to slot with enhancements as well, but everyone can access this without cost.

Now, I wouldn't mind being able to pick a movement power from the start either, but there should be some limiting factor or cost to it.

I'd like to echo the call for even more power pools though. I'd love at Gadgetry Pool.
T1: Net Trap (like web grenade).
T2: Lazer Sighting click power - affect self, adds slight to-hit buff, and minor range boost.
T3: Grappling Gun: movement power - target location triggers swing to that spot.
T4: Gas Pellets: targeted location, foe knock down, sleep. You throw out a hand full of gass pellets which may cause foes to slip and fall. Some may crack and release a gas cloud causing foes to fall asleep.

Biogenic Augmentation:
T1: Hardened Skin: passive minor resist to smashing, lethal damage
T2: Adrenal Leech: click power, single target foe - endurance, self + endurance, minor resist to endurance drain for a short duration.
T3: Walk Walking: travel power, the verticle movement on walls.
T4: Biomorphic Boost: click power, pboae affect: for a short duration you slightly alter how your body, and that of other's near you operate by increasing recharge, movement speed, regeneration rate, and damage.

Well, it could also mean that there really is a technical problem with too-fast flight but they figure a low enough number of players will take and use afterburner that it will keep it from being an issue in practice.

<qr> No, they shouldn't.

I like the fact that everyone is a pedestrian. I have to imagine that if they'd intended there to be vehicles in the game, players wouldn't have a default walking speed of like fifteen miles per hour or be able to leap twenty feet in the air as a matter of course. Everyone in Paragon City and surrounding areas is really damn fit since vehicles were eschewed. Also you have to imagine that the air is awfully clean when it isn't converted to zombie-ridden smog.