Rule number one of older City of Heroes missions:

[dvandom]

If a mission is given in Steel Canyon and requires travel to Skyway City or vice versa, whichever train station is closer to the contact will let you out at the wrong end of the target city. ALWAYS.

Comments

[masonk.livejournal.com]

This is especially true before you earn travel powers.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

At one point, the designers spent a lot of time proceeding under the parallel assumptions that:

1) Requiring travel on foot across large and potentially hazardous areas was important for teaching players to manage aggro; and

2) Adversity builds character, if you'll pardon the pun.

[ypawtows.livejournal.com]

Well... that way you have a better excuse to fill in the map.... :)

(gdar)