Indystruck

If you're strong enough to get wailed on for the 10s countdown before Self Destruct activates, you're strong enough to take out the mob without using Self Destruct.

Yeah, which isn't really an advantage for 99.9999% of content, nor is it a particularly special or noteworthy revelation. It's like saying that the Pocket D pass will take you to Pocket D. Yes, that's true.

This isn't relevant to what I was saying, though. The point being that if you want to get to Ouros from bases, you can, albeit it is admittedly more roundabout, unless you feel like getting the portal at level one, and regardless, the Pillar of Ice and Flame functionality is still present in the base editor. The fact that Ouros can take you to... Ouros, is not really a revelation, nor applicable to most content, except, obviously, for the handful of Ouros arcs like Alpha unlocking or Mender Tesseract/Twilight's Son/Mender Silos/etc.

As someone who's always with a cup in hand when I go to bars, I enjoy being appropriately represented by War Witch.

Oh, don't be so melodramatic.

Bases are actually the easiest way to get the Ouroboros portal, explicitly because you can access Ouroboros from there at level one. While it's more circuitous than just using the portal, it absolutely can take you to Ouroboros, and the base itself does have Pillar of Ice and Flame functionality anyway.

Alright, then, well, I don't care if you don't buy it, because it's just straight up more useful indisputably than Ouros. Ouros doesn't take you to a number of major zones, or link to any hazard zones.

Yes, because Ouro and Mission TP and existing base teleporters all have existing cooldowns, where as the slash command explicitly does not, Ouro also doesn't work as a transfer point to every zone. And it easily saves several minutes through out a task force run. You don't know where a door is going to be until you get in the zone, outside from a few specific missions like talkies/transit bound ones, so that's not really relevant to the conversation. And in those instances where you do know, you have to weigh whether or not the Ouro-exit point or the Base portal point is more advantangeous. And I agree, the slash command isn't necessary, and I'm speaking as someone who abuses the hell out of it for speedrunning, for RP, and as a base building enthusiast.

Think about TFs that stick you deep into a hazard zone, like, say Boomtown, or Crey's Folly. You exit a door, instantaneously travel to your base, which is a couple seconds worth of load time on my machine, run over to the teleporter, and are instantly in the zone that the next mission takes place in. Hell, I've participated in TFs that set server best paces without using travel powers, because I have access to that slash command. I will be first to the door using ninja run/sprint over other people, so long as they didn't just use Mission TP. It is extraordinarily convenient.

The slash command makes travel much easier and faster, what are you talking about? It's been amazing for speedruns at the very least. But it also completely nullifies a number of ingame powers by simply existing, like, the Base TP temp accolade, or the purchaseable Base TP, or Longe Range Teleport. The command should be removed, but, I'm all for the duration on either of the existing Base TPs to be lowered, but not to the extent that it's instanteous because that doesn't solve the issue.

I'm all for lowering the cooldown on the temp power, but there's nothing preventing people who are bouncing between numerous bases from just using passcodes at an SG portal.

This is a great proposal. I'm all for these additions.

Fly is the more versatile power. Fly can beat SS just about anywhere without Afterburner. Afterburner just makes it so you'll basically always be the first to a door. It is fine. Afterburner is also nice to take as a LotG mule.

that above post is a big yikes

This seems like a pretty good take.

Well, dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians! Hi, Twi! Well hello there!

@Twi. Sentinel of Twilight (ASTS, YGA) , Atti Stargleam (ASTS), ... uh and alot more.