Annoying travel powers

I'm sure this has been talked about before, but I figured I'd make my own complaint. Coyote run, rocket board, magic carpet all detoggle. WHY?! That makes these powers impossibly irritating to use, especially if you run leadership buffs which take an eternity to cast. We know the devs have the ability to suppress toggles rather than detoggle completely. Why the @$&% don't these travel powers do this?! Based on comments I've heard in game, it would do A LOT to make purchasing these travel powers more attractive.

I believe it has to do with the way powers animations work, or rather how they don't while those powers are active. What would Foot Stomp look like on a Magic Carpet? Or Shield Charge as a coyote?

There is no example of a self-toggle that causes all other powers to suppress in the game currently. There are only affecting self toggles, but the problem with those is that you can still cause your character to do animations with those active. If the choice the devs had was to use the existing detoggle behavior found in walk or go back through every power in the game to add a new suppression mechanic that works with these travel powers, well, it becomes slightly clearer why they did what they did, no?

/powexecname Hoverboard
/e swoon

Hilarious, right? Except rather than flying around face-down you'd probably clip out of the bottom of the board with your skeleton all twisted up because the devs didn't want to have to port that and every other emote to some novelty travel powers.

I guess i see your point, PR. It just seems a shame because unless they DO implement some mechanic(s) allowing for suppression of all powers (or at least all toggles--maybe they could split the mechanic by only adding suppression code to toggle powers and keeping the rest unusable), these travel powers will always be relegated to "novelty" status, rather than actually useful. I wonder if the increase in sales from changing it to suppression would offset the cost of going through and adding the suppression mechanic. Taking the time and money to add this QoL feature would allow them to add usable and profitable travel powers anytime they see fit without them being automatically considered novelty powers only useful to RPers and those with PPs to burn.

I agree that it would be nice if they could have powers like that allow you to remain toggled. Look at it this way, the devs know well that there's player demand for such a feature. Who knows where that puts it on the priority list, but one thing they do try to do is kill multiple birds with one stone when they can. If a new game system is ever added that could overlap with this demand I think they'd be likely to go for it.

And the moral of the story is, if a travel power annoys you, use a different travel power or shut your dodgamn mouth.

I think the buyable travel powers have an annoyance factor to make them less good than the ones you can actually take as powers.

If for example the hover board did everything that Fly did, a lot of people would probably see it as freeing up a slot for another power choice and never pick a travel power.

I think hoverboard and ninja run are extremely good, given that once bought, they are basically free. I don't have all of the others, so I can't compare. I think hover board is even faster than standard fly, so you can spend the time you arrive earlier at missions to turn your toggles back on.

If you want a fly power that doesn't de-toggle or prevent you using other powers and doesn't expire then you have a very simple solution - pick Fly from the travel powers. A permanent power doing that for a very modest financial outlay would be vastly overpowered - in many ways it could be argued that the various jump/fly packs available should also have the same power suppression effect but that would be harder to apply as they are already in-game without the disadvantage and retrogressively applying it to a huge proportion of the playerbase would be a marketing nightmare.

Here's a better idea, decrease the cast time of toggles! There is no game mechanic reason to have a long cast time on a toggle, it will not affect combat aspects of the game, but it will make life a heck of a lot easier, on start-up and when using the annoying travel powers.