Pekiti Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 I love the look of the flying carpet flight power, it fits my character theme, but I have questions. 1. It looks like it won't let me activate powers while riding it, but it appears my (already active) toggles continue to work, is that right? 2. Is there anything I can do to make it fly faster? 3. Is there any way to change the color of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sovera Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Yes, no, no. 1 1 - Simple guide for newcomers. - Money making included among other things. - Tanker Fire Armor: the Turtle, the Allrounder, the Dragon, and compilation of Fire Armor builds. - Tanker Stone Armor: beginner friendly (near) immortal Tanker for leveling/end-game and Stone Armor framework. - Brute Rad/Stone and compilation of Brute Stone Armor builds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Shocker Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 your toggles continue to be activated so that when you stop using the carpet, they function again, without having to re-toggle. No you can't make it fly faster - if you want to go faster a) scream or b) use a regular travel power somebody made a mod for the hoverboard on live I believe, that would change the texture locally. But it would look the same in game to all other players. I don't know if such a mod exists for the carpet 1 There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator but only a fraction of people understand that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougGraves Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 4 hours ago, Pekiti said: 1. It looks like it won't let me activate powers while riding it, but it appears my (already active) toggles continue to work, is that right? You should be limited to self only powers. But you should be able to turn on toggles and activate powers that only affect yourself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pekiti Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 24 minutes ago, DougGraves said: You should be limited to self only powers. But you should be able to turn on toggles and activate powers that only affect yourself. I wonder if Shadowfall (toggled on before I summon the carpet) will still affect my team. I will have to test this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diantane Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 If you want to fight from your "mount," play Lord of the Rings Online. When you get to level 65 you get a Warsteed. Then you can fight on it - fun. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pekiti Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 (edited) Well, I can fly through a lot of missions on the carpet and stay cloaked etc...which fits the theme. I did discover that it appears "you cannot increase the carpet's flight speed" is technically incorrect. If you slot Fly Speed into Swift, it affects all of your flying powers. One level 25 IO makes the Carpet almost as fast as unslotted Mystic Flight (according to the in game status monitor). It feels faster too, but this is what the stats window shows. Swift with 1 Fly speed IO, carpet active Swift unslotted, Mystic Flight active The wiki does say that the carpet should ignore any buffs or set bonuses, but I don't have a way to test that by myself. So (in theory) if I wanted to save a power pick I could spend a slot or two in Swift to buff my Carpet flight speed. Probably futile, but interesting to me. Edited February 25 by Pekiti corrected pic captions 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasperStone Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 27 minutes ago, Pekiti said: Well, I can fly through a lot of missions on the carpet and stay cloaked etc...which fits the theme. I did discover that it appears "you cannot increase the carpet's flight speed" is technically incorrect. If you slot Fly Speed into Swift, it affects all of your flying powers. One level 25 IO makes the Carpet almost as fast as unslotted Mystic Flight (according to the in game status monitor). It feels faster too, but this is what the stats window shows. Swift with 1 Fly speed IO, carpet active Swift unslotted, Mystic Flight active The wiki does say that the carpet should ignore any buffs or set bonuses, but I don't have a way to test that by myself. So (in theory) if I wanted to save a power pick I could spend a slot or two in Swift to buff my Carpet flight speed. Probably futile, but interesting to me. Depending on your AT, there are secondary powers to boost flight etc... Forums - a place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged. "it will be a forum for consumers to exchange their views on medical research" Spam Response- Spam, in the context of cybersecurity, refers to any unsolicited and often irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent over the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Shocker Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 1 1 There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator but only a fraction of people understand that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clave Dark 5 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 7 hours ago, Pekiti said: The wiki does say that the carpet should ignore any buffs or set bonuses, but I don't have a way to test that by myself. So (in theory) if I wanted to save a power pick I could spend a slot or two in Swift to buff my Carpet flight speed. Probably futile, but interesting to me. I just dropped one into my usually empty slot on a toon I have the carpet on, it does seem a bit faster (also turns out I already had a few movement boosts from sets etc.) Since it's usually an empty slot, seems it can't hurt to throw one in, right? 1 Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney: Matt (Posi) used to say that players would find the shortest path to the rewards even if it was a completely terrible play experience that would push them away from the game... ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ Clave's Sure-Fire Secrets to Enjoying City Of Heroes Ignore those farming chores, skip your market homework, play any power sets that you want, and ignore anyone who says otherwise. This game isn't hard work, it's easy! Go have fun! ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninja surprise Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 9 hours ago, Pekiti said: I wonder if Shadowfall (toggled on before I summon the carpet) will still affect my team. I will have to test this. No, the three flight powers like this (rocket board, glowie disk, and carpet) all put you in "only affecting self" mode. You can eat inspirations, turn your own powers on and off, teleport yourself, etc, but can't attack enemies or buff your team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZemX Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 19 hours ago, Pekiti said: I did discover that it appears "you cannot increase the carpet's flight speed" is technically incorrect. [ObiWan] It's correct... from a certain point of view. [/ObiWan] Movement Speed is a little weird. FlyingSpeed is an attribute of the character. What movement powers do is increase those movement speed attributes (running, leaping, flying) of your character. In other words, Swift isn't increasing the flying speed of the Flying Carpet. It's increasing the flying speed of your character. Flying Carpet is ALSO increasing the flying speed of your character. That's what you see in the list of values in the movement speed combat monitor. What it means when it says you can't increase the speed of the carpet is that you can't increase the contribution made to your overall flight speed BY the carpet. That's to contrast with powers like Flight or Mystic Flight which can be enhanced for fly speed. Enhancing those powers increases the amount they contribute to your overall flight speed. That can't be done with Flying Carpet. It always adds the same amount to your flight speed when toggled on. Put another way, you can place enhancements into Mystic Flight and you'll see its line in the combat monitor increase in value (i.e. the number next to Mystic Flight will go up as well as the total flight speed). But Flying Carpet will always add that same number you already see in your pics when you toggle it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mopery Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 A fun trick while on a Magic Carpet(or skiff, or rocket board) is to use Mystic Flight's teleport while flying on it. You arrive at your destination on your chosen mode of transport in a circle-y flash. Those times you saw no footprints, I had Fly toggled on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironblade Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 4 hours ago, ZemX said: [ObiWan] It's correct... from a certain point of view. [/ObiWan] You are TECHNICALLY correct, Bureaucrat Hermes, which is the best kind of correct. 2 1 Originally on Infinity. I have Ironblade on every shard. - My only AE arc: The Origin of Mark IV (ID 48002) Link to the story of Toggle Man, since I keep having to track down my original post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraAlt Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 On 2/25/2024 at 7:25 AM, Pekiti said: 1. It looks like it won't let me activate powers while riding it, but it appears my (already active) toggles continue to work, is that right? When you are using the flying carpet, rocket board, or void skiff none of your powers are functional. The toggle powers don't detoggle so you don't have to fiddle with turning them back on every time you stop using the flying carpet - but they don't do anything while you have the flying carpet active. On 2/25/2024 at 7:25 AM, Pekiti said: 2. Is there anything I can do to make it fly faster? not that I know of. On 2/25/2024 at 7:25 AM, Pekiti said: 3. Is there any way to change the color of it? There are ways to mod sounds and visual effects, but only you and those using those mods would see them the way that the mod has changed them. That being said, I don't fiddle with mods so I don't know if there is one of the magic carpet or not. If someone posts a reply quoting me and I don't reply, they may be on ignore. (It seems I'm involved with so much at this point that I may not be able to easily retrieve access to all the notifications) Some players know that I have them on ignore and are likely to make posts knowing that is the case. But the fact that I have them on ignore won't stop some of them from bullying and harassing people, because some of them love to do it. There is a group that have banded together to target forum posters they don't like. They think that this behavior is acceptable. Ignore (in the forums) and /ignore (in-game) are tools to improve your gaming experience. Don't feel bad about using them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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