Everyone knows flying is overrated. Ground based travel is way cooler. So, how do YOU move around when grounded?
Most of the time I walk around casually, moving one leg in front of the other. Very relaxing.
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Everyone knows flying is overrated. Ground based travel is way cooler. So, how do YOU move around when grounded?
Most of the time I walk around casually, moving one leg in front of the other. Very relaxing.
One very pronounced element of me attaining lucidity is that I suddenly have full awareness of the movement of my legs, the impact of my feet on the ground, etc, which is rare for my non-lucid dreams.
I've once driven and once been a car passenger, being a passenger and having a DC drive me while I looked at the scenery is perhaps the most relaxing things I've done in LDing.
Not true at all :P Flying and hovering is much cooler.
Anyway... i don't see how can you walk differently... When i'm on the ground i just walk like in real life...
I think your imagination is limited.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlezoe
I enjoy walking around in Lucids, since I am amble to take in more detail and scenery. Sometimes, I will hover a few feet off the ground in a lotus position.
Also, I'd take the Speed/Leaping set over the Flying set any day of the week. Flight makes you slow and vulnerable to -Fly effects. But Super Speed + Combat Jumping lets you kite very effectively and prevents immobilize fairly well.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlezoe
Flight is really only useful for concept characters or to complement TP.
In your opinion :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
Also, it's possible to fly faster as well... so i don't see where the "slow" comes from...
It's just straight numbers. There's no reason to slot for flight speed when you can hit much higher base speeds with the other two powers. This is especially true now that everyone gets the fitness set automagically.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlezoe
I'd pull up Mids (or the new equivalent; I've been out of the grind for awhile now) to get the exact numbers, but I don't run Windows anymore.
Hmm. I think I've forgotten which forum I'm on.
I'm not sure whether you heard or not (i guess not), but lucid dreaming is not about the numbers :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
So i'd rather stay to what i find the most fun way to move ^^
Ah, I take it you're not much of a PvPer, then?Quote:
Originally Posted by littlezoe
It's all about the numbers and maneuverability when you hit up Warburg or RV.
Flight just isn't as reactive as any other travel power.
I'm a FUNer ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
Sooo.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlezoe
You hang out on Triumph a lot?
Not sure what you mean ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
I think that's been the running theme. XP
Edit: Found a good resource for ya.
I knew that you must be talking about some kind of game... but i didn't play that one... No matter what multiplay game i play, i tend to aim for having fun, so yes i don't care about the numbers. It's the same way in LDs for me... i do what i find the most fun way of doing so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
Okay, so what's the most fun way you have of moving around on the ground?Quote:
Originally Posted by littlezoe
That's simple: Walking is not fun! :cheeky: That's why i fly, haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
Yep.
You clearly lack imagination if the most exhilarating form of ground-based travel you can think of is walking.
I see you are still offended ;) But this is a cheap try...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
I'll just leave your thread if that makes you feel better :)
Not offended.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlezoe
Disappointed that you restrict yourself like this.
You might believe you're thinking outside of the box with your decision to defame ground transport and remain airborne, but you're just confining yourself to a different, much smaller box.
Lol. I'm glad to see you don't mind being the the sounding board, Mzzkc.
How do I move while on the ground?
I prefer to run ...
Vehicles are ok... off-roading ones are fun.
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Not to support Mzzkc, as he doesn't require it XP but running and kiting is more effective than flying. Maybe not for EVERYONE as I'm sure there are some who have perfected flight abilities over ground-based methods... but I just assume those are more advanced dreamers. Generally flying does have that issue of control and slowness that takes a bit more effort to overcome than running/kiting.
Flying requires the use of teleportation or some variant to be effective in combat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaomea
Unless you go the defensive route...but flying fortresses aren't as great as you'd think.
P.S. Lol.
What about time dilation?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
About half the time in my lucids or just dreams for that matter, I'm on the ground. Flying is ok, but I like things up close. Usually, I don't walk. I just kind skim over the ground, if you know what I mean. Not moving my legs or anything, but not hovering. Kinda like sliding on ice. :3
In terms of what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ctharlhie
Straight up time control is a decent way to counterbalance the issues with flight. Personally, I use skips and flash steps to in combination with teleportation techniques to gain the advantage unpredictable speed can give you.
The nice thing is all of those work on the ground, too. Which means even if they manage to ground you, you're not helpless.
Example:
http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/mzzk...nd-games-1218/
Dilation on the other hand just makes things last longer and tends to leave you with a nasty headache.
Yeah I was thinking flash steps :D, awesome dream btw, did Walms (hukif?) verify that shared dream?
He complained of spontaneous stomach pains the night of, but had no recall of what happened.
So, no. Not confirmed.
Running while shapeshifted as a Wolf. (Howling) :werewolf:
I don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
The ground moves under me. As my lucidity increases, my DC body disappears. So, with no "legs" on hand, the best way I've found to move around is to have "around" move for me. So, I guess the world is amblin' past me whenever I care to explore my dreamscapes.
Talk about pro moves right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sageous
Travel via warp fields. Like a boss.
Not so grand, I think. For me it's movement based on perception and, strangely, simplicity; no warps, no bossing. After all, even when walking about in waking life, couldn't you consider that you're standing still, and the world is simply passing you by? Especially if your body is not part of the formula? Try it sometime; it can be very relaxing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzzkc
Walking itself is a physical motion dictated by our need to follow physical rules in waking life. When you think about it, it's a very clumsy activity, amounting to little more than knocking yourself off balance and catching yourself before you fall. Over and over. Allowing the ground to do the work in the dreaming, because it can, seems a graceful solution to me...
OK, I'll play. How do I like to travel on land? I change my routine based on the dream, but here are a few odd examples.
1) Spider climbing. I love the speed and grace of climbing a building at top speed and ease. I just "know" my hands will find the next hold, and i virtualy throw myself up the building like I am weightless. After perfecting this move. Spider climb on a horizontal surface, by changing the direction of gravity. You are sitting in a field, for example, and decide to move swiftly across the landscape. You reach out in the direction you wish to go, and using hand gestures like spider climbing, you kind of throw yourself at top speed over and over.
2) I will recreate the feeling of easy movement like ice skating. I travel rapidly and smoothly on some flatter surfaces by skating here and and there. I do not create a winter scene; I just skate across any terrain. I can very the stride to create either a fun and casual slow skate similar to ice skating, or I can cover huge distances in just a few gestures.
3) For straight terrain, such as on a long boring street in a dream city, I will sled. This is done again by changing the direction of your own gravity. I lay on my back and look over my chest at the scene out in front of my feet. I change the gravity so that every surface is now slanted and down is always the way i am choosing to travel. I sled on my back, feet first down city streets and watch the effects my brain creates out of the lights flashing by. I think my speed has normally been only about 35 mph.
I wonder how many people have much combat in LDs? It has never occured to me to worry about how well any thing would do in a fight. I rarely have conflict in LDs. I have had lots of game like combat dreams, and they all seem to have been based on a ground format. I love all sorts of flying, but that would be a new thread.
So modest and matter-o'-fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sageous
No room for embellishment or shenanigans here folks. XP
Keep on knowledgin' it up, Sagey my man.
Now this is some cool stuff. The combinations of abstractions needed to pull those travel methods off without running into associative bleed is a testament to your level of control. If such a thing could be argued to exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by sivason
It might be more accurate to say your understanding is further along than most folk. Which is still damn nifty.
It's fairly common, from what I've seen. I try not to pursue it these days, but I frequently find myself in those sorts of situations anyways. x.XQuote:
Originally Posted by sivason
Or, you know, the 17 other threads that already exist on the topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by sivason
You know what's cool? Moving along like a slug, gliding around on the floor like you know whats what.
Since I was a kid, even in non-lucids, I've manipulated gravity while traversing interiors, negotiating which ever is the most convenient surface, or negating gravity altogether and moving by intent. Not a method I'd ever use in a open environment of course. I do rather like Sivason's ice skating method. :)
I like to be Spiderman when going long distances.
Awww no teleportation?
Besides that I like to run at high speeds.
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuukif.
I have pie. Will you run for pie?
Because I run for cookies. I'll race you. Loser wins.