Originally Posted by Mothers_Love

Should other travel powers have lightspeed's trail? - kinda takes some of the uniqueness of Lightspeed away doesn't it? - and thats something you've really got to watch, not blandifying™ and homogenising unique variety in the name of spreading freeform choice.

A far better way of altering trails would be for a premium aura pack to act like power replacers from which the travel powers would display different themed trails;

Eg: from a Premium Aura Pack > pick a themed travel power aura, eg: 'Nature' and wherever you tunnelled flowers would sprout or if you flew then it would leave a trail of pollen dust. Maybe on rest fireflys, flowers or wildlife might appear around you.

Eg 2: Pick 'Fire' > wherever you tunnelled it would leave a trail of molten earth, flames and smoke trail in flight, shower of cinders and 'bampf' smoke cloud in TP. Maybe heat-haze above/around toon on rest.

Eg 3: Pick 'Ice' > snowtrail in flight, a proper Iceman™ Ice path on CO's current Iceflight / Ice surfboard, Snowflurry & wind gust on TP entry/exit.

Eg:4: 'Darkness' > winged demons following in your wake / in formation with flight, A dark portal dripping with (what looks like) black liquid ink on a stargate-like event horizon. Step/in / Step-out animation. On tunnelling say... traditional tunneling with the odd tombstone being unearthed or skeletal hands reaching up briefly before going back down.


Turning off the aura would have the travel powers revert to their standard FX.

...that kinda thing, to avoid escalating calls for lightflight, light-teleport or multitude variations of whatever the next newly developed travel power is.