Hoverbikes as a form instead of a power pool

I thought up an idea. Maybe it's been suggested before but maybe not.

I know a lot of players want vehicles and I think hoverbikes, with a shaded shell top, would fit the bill without being a ridiculout amount of work for the developers. The idea is that if you choose Hoverbike, you are choosing an alternative form for your character, as if you were a kheldian choosing Nova form. However, this form does not come with five inherent powers, only one. You must choose the pther powers. You cannot use your characters other powers while in Hoverbike form, they are suppressed.

There would be two choices for the look of your Hoverbike. One is heroic and high tech, while the other is somewhat sinister and steampunk looking. Changing into the high tech hoverbike involves a brief intense UFO style light as the bike either comes down from the sky or you are transformed into the bike (like if you are a robot). Changing into the steampunk bike involves a cloud of belching black smoke instead of a bright light.

Both of these hoverbikes have a hard shell canopy, which is heavily tinted so that the developers don't have to figure out how to make characters of different sizes fit into the thing. Color customization of the hoverbikes would be highly desireable. If you are defeated in Hoverbike form, the Hoverbike explodes and drops you flat on the ground, like a Sky Raider Sky Skiff.

Benefits of the Hoverbikes idea:

1. Hoverbikes hover, so they won't look ridiculous going across water.
2. They're compact, so you can maneuver them up staircases and through elevators.
3. Your character is fully inside, so less work for the developers.
4. Only one person fits inside a hoverbike, so no giving rides to other characters.

Powers of the Hoverbike:

Hoverbikes have an inherent power, called Cruise, which lets them travel across ground or water, but not up into the air. Cruise speed is kinda slow, somewhere between Sprint and base Fly speed.

First Power: Guns

Your Hoverbike has machine guns mounted in its nose. These have an 80 foot range but do only minor damage. They sound like the guns of the Special Ops mastermind henchmen, sort of high tech and partially silenced. This power would recharge in about 10 seconds.

Second Power: Missles

Your Hoverbike can launch micro-missles. These have an 80 foot range and do moderate AoE lethal and fire damage with chance of knockback. The sound and animation from Long Range Rocket from Munitions Mastery is good for this one. This would have about a 30 second recharge.

Third Power: Float

Improvements to your Hoverbike now allow it to travel up into the air. Speed is slower than Fly, but with the same control as Hover (no drift).

Fourth Power: Afterburners

This is a click power that allows your Hoverbike to increase speed for a minute or so. Speed becomes comparable with Fly. Recharge time is five minutes or so. (This type of speed boost has been suggested as a replacement for Group Fly by someone else, I know.)

This suggestion uses ideas that are already in the game, though it changes a few things. It's a form, but you don't get all powers right away. It's like a Power Pool, but you get five choices like an Epic Pool. I'm thinking that its technically feasible.

Alright. Let me know if you like the suggestion. Flame me if necessary. If they put this in, I'll start a hoverbike gang and you all are welcome to join!

Whoops! AzureSkyCiel beat me to it and suggested almost this very thing already. His suggestion is a temp power mine is permanent. I hope a developer reads and thinks about implementing either suggestion. Sorry about the copying, AzureSkyCiel! You were first!

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Sigh, I really wish that people would stop making threads about these vehicles that would not only be a coding nightmare, but a waste of developer time.

I already find the normal Flight way to slow to feel super, let alone wanting to have a form of flight that is even slower then that.

Not saying I wouldn't want hoverbikes/boards/gliders/younameit but I rather have it something like a customizable flight pool option instead of a new pool power set.

If my Mastermind gets a hoverbike can her pets follow on hoverscooters?

Also /no.

I don't see the problem with hoverbikes, however, why not do it as an alternate flight form?

Sooner or later, they'll get the power pools with some power customization.

You grab fly, you pick then...Hoverbike, Fly Pose 1, Fly Pose 2, Slab of Rock, Fly in Hover Position, Hover Disk, ect, ect.

They could then do all the same for Hover.

That seems the way to go imo.

Why not just add an alternate animation to fly?