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glomoro
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It occurred to me today while playing one of my newer characters that, given what he was made in reference to there really isn't a travel power or vehicle or anything that really fits just right. Then while I thought about what WOULD work for him, I realized it would actually work for several of my own characters, and thus perhaps could be nice for everyone to have as an option.
Now, you can sort of do this now with /movementreset but running in the air like that using one of the flight powers doesn't look right at all. You move like one of the civilians walking around the city would if a video of them got sped up. So I propose "Air Walk," or "Sky Run," (the name is really not important until more details of its appearance are nailed down). Using energy emanating from your feet, you take to the skies running like you would if leaping from one foot to the other. Each leap would be punctuated by a burst of the energy emanation from the proper foot for that particular leap.
Now, I was thinking it could use an animation that would fit well in the Force or Wind power sets. An understated Fire effect might not be bad either. I don't really mind as I could find a good use for just about any possible effect you guys can come up with from the feet. As a bonus to those using it, "flying" at ground level with it would probably still look good as a running animation. People could use it either way with out so much as a hiccup between the transition. This could perhaps follow the route Energy Slide did, and rather than be a new skin for one or the other of the travel power types it is sort of "between," it could fall somewhere in the middle for the speed differences of Flight and Acrobatics (or Super Speed, I suppose; I'm not sure either one is precisely to flight so either one might be the appropriate comparison point). If this idea were selected as one to be put in development, as I pointed out the possibilities for different animations here are quite flexible so this could be a new series of powers. I'd, more likely than not, end up buying more than one version myself if given the option.
I probably have more ideas along these lines, but I would prefer to keep individual suggestions of travel powers in individual threads where possible. If people like this idea, I'll probably see what else I have knocking around in my head to put up here.
Now, you can sort of do this now with /movementreset but running in the air like that using one of the flight powers doesn't look right at all. You move like one of the civilians walking around the city would if a video of them got sped up. So I propose "Air Walk," or "Sky Run," (the name is really not important until more details of its appearance are nailed down). Using energy emanating from your feet, you take to the skies running like you would if leaping from one foot to the other. Each leap would be punctuated by a burst of the energy emanation from the proper foot for that particular leap.
Now, I was thinking it could use an animation that would fit well in the Force or Wind power sets. An understated Fire effect might not be bad either. I don't really mind as I could find a good use for just about any possible effect you guys can come up with from the feet. As a bonus to those using it, "flying" at ground level with it would probably still look good as a running animation. People could use it either way with out so much as a hiccup between the transition. This could perhaps follow the route Energy Slide did, and rather than be a new skin for one or the other of the travel power types it is sort of "between," it could fall somewhere in the middle for the speed differences of Flight and Acrobatics (or Super Speed, I suppose; I'm not sure either one is precisely to flight so either one might be the appropriate comparison point). If this idea were selected as one to be put in development, as I pointed out the possibilities for different animations here are quite flexible so this could be a new series of powers. I'd, more likely than not, end up buying more than one version myself if given the option.
I probably have more ideas along these lines, but I would prefer to keep individual suggestions of travel powers in individual threads where possible. If people like this idea, I'll probably see what else I have knocking around in my head to put up here.
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Travel power suggestion threads: Air Walk, Heavy Weapon Flight, Cape Glide improvement
Power suggestion threads: Annihilate
Travel power suggestion threads: Air Walk, Heavy Weapon Flight, Cape Glide improvement
Power suggestion threads: Annihilate
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Another good variant could be electricity.
There are definitely a ton of variations they could go with that would look really good. Perhaps the only power sets without ability appearances that would do nicely are Beastial, Might and Earth (I could see this one working, but it seems too close to what we already have with Earth Flight at that point).
I believe I've actually seen some threads suggesting things like Air Gear style skates, if that's how you mean "sporty." There's nothing wrong with that, I did offer support of the idea in the thread I saw, but I'd prefer to talk about this suggestion in this thread. If you have anything to add on my idea, or something you'd do different please feel free to reply with that. I'd like Cryptic to get the best they can for the idea from as many of us as possible if they happen to see and like this suggestion.
Travel power suggestion threads: Air Walk, Heavy Weapon Flight, Cape Glide improvement
Power suggestion threads: Annihilate
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