(Puts on flame-retardant suit...)
Okay, so before I state my ideas let me say that I know the devs have said this isn't going to happen, and no I haven't read ALL the threads on the vehicles suggestions, because A) I'm lazy... and B) I have too much of a life outside of the game/forums... So forgive me for any similarities to any other posts...
As for bringing this subject up again, I basically wanted to put my 2 inf in on the subject and also keep it alive so that hopefully eventually the devs will see how much the players want it and perhaps work it into the game... So without further adieu...
Vehicles, a Travel Power:
Much like Jetpacks and other travel power costume pieces, vechicles such as cars, motorcycles, jets and helicopters will produce a costume and animation change of the vehicle around the avatar when activated.
Customization will be like costume customization in which you will choose the shape of the vehicle, decoration pieces, and patterns and colors.
Now for all the issues that I read about that were brought up...
How will vehicles travel over certain terain, like water? Will it be able to "jump"?
That one's easy, at least I think it is... For the Helicopters it would be REALLY simple... like any other flight power you would be able to fly and land anywhere... and as for water, make it have pontoons or a stylish floatation bottom... As for the cars/motorcycles, you have two choices...
First with the land terain: you can either have them "jump" via hydrolics or jump jets, or more simply, you could make them unable to jump, and the player would need to stick to the roads (which is more "realistic") and should the player get stuck or need to traverse the more rocky or uneven terain, they can deactivate their vehicle to do so... And as for the water, same thing... either make the vehicles amphibious, or just make them unable to go in the water, at which point the vehicle travel power will automatically deactivate and the player will have to swim until they get to a road to ractivate...
The other big issue: What happens when you activate your vehicle power in a cave or building?
Again, in my mind, easy... NOTHING!!! Make it inherent in the power that it cannot be activated in indoor instances such as buildings and caves and sewers and such... the only way a hero would take a vehicle into a building is if he drove it in through the wall, which OBVIOUSLY would not be a part of the game... unless the devs went nuts... Vehicles are meant to be a way to get from point A to point B and then the hero hoofs it from there.
So it makes no sense to have this power usable indoors, which solves that problem as far as I'm concerned...
So there are my thoughts so far... let me know what you guys think, and please... be gentle... LOL
Thanks for your time!
