Vehicles in City of Heroes. (is it possible?)

I know players like when a new travel power becomes available, but what I'm thinking about is different. What I'm imagining is this. The vehicle would basically be a customizable player character that your character can transform into, with its own powersets unique to vehicles. Your character could have a temporary power (that would be disbled if the vehicle gets detroyed, and returns when it's repaired/rebuilt) that will summon the vehicle like a pet. So if its a car it will drive up beside you. Then you click on the vehicle to talk to it and select "enter your vehicle" from the conversation options. At that point your character transforms into the vehicle (and uses its powers instead of his/her regualar powers) and the vehicle pet becomes a tiny, completely invisible and Intangible thing that can not be tageted or interacted with, but takes damage and uses endurance in place of your character. If it gets killed you get ejected and it comes with an exit the vehicle power.

I'm not suggesting that this should be added to the game or anything. I'm just wondering if people think such a thing could work within the game.

Nope. Dead Horse powerset is more likely. There are many reasons for this but remember this is an old engine.

That wasn't a vehicle.

All I want is a Jetson's type flying car. Or a Star Trek flying motorcycle that chased young Jimmy Kirk in his step dad's Corvette. Or that rocket horse. Definitely want.

That would solve just about any issue, yeah? If we can have mobs of thugs showing up out of *thin freaking air* for masterminds, this is possible.

Otherwise, M. Bill has it down, and it's good, and bankable. Not happening. I'm ok with this.

The answer is, without a doubt, "yes, it is possible."

What matters, though, is that it is highly unlikely.

I'd like to believe that the devs have attempted to appease such requests by offering things like the new flying carpet and the semi-recently released rocketboard. There are way more variables than one may think that would need to be accounted for most of which would be animations. I'm not an animator, but just thinking about the various things that would have to be addressed (variations in character height, shape; how to control the vehicle as a separate entity; how to make it targetable by just that character and not the NPCs; etc) gives me a headache. Ignoring the age of the engine, they'd likely have to completely build a secondary physics layer just for the whole thing.

While it'd be cool to have a baby-blue 57 chevy, it's kinda weird when I think about things like "where would it be when I'm not using it?" or "how long would this really last in places like RWZ, etc". I also think that it would kinda mess with the sense of emersion ingame as well. Overall I'd rather they work on the existing QoL issues first.

P.S: Just like at the dealership I'd also HATE to see the sticker price of my ride should it be introduced into the market!

Only if it's a shape shifting travel power like the Coyote, and then only if the associated sound effect while traveling sounds like Speed Buggy.

Regarding immersion I would have to disagree. See I was thinking of superhero vehicles. For example we all know of a certain superhero that has a very distinctive car pacted full of various gadgets. As for powers, think along the lines of the dark nova form of warshades. Your regular powers will be disabled and you gain access to the vehicles powers. Say built in machine guns and rocket lauchers that only shoot forward. All windows blacked out so you cant see your character (because they transformed into the vehicle). Animation should be fairly basic as there are actually very few moving parts. Movement would likely be the tricky part. Thinking about it, a wheeled car might be out of the question without a lot of work. But a kinda futuristic anti-gravity car might work, since it would float above the ground it would be justifiable that it could turn and maneuver more like a character. There would need to be a way to prevent such vehicles being used indoors however.

In a sense the bright nova and dark nova forms are a lot like what i'm talking about. Just instead of changing into a nova you change into a high tech hovering vehicle with built in weapon systems.

So... rather than a vehicle travel power, A Kheldian-like powerset that turns you into something like a Sky Raiders Sky Skiff, or Longbow Chaser?

Then I doubt you're going to get that customization you wanted in your opening post. See Granite Armor; the tech is just not in the game's engine to allow customizing anything but your base model + weapon. ... yet.

And at best, it would probably only be changeable under the Power Customization menu, giving you the choice of a few base models, and able to change 2 colours.

Actually I was thinking a smaller 1 person vehicle. Sorta like in batman beyond. And customization could be like a costume on a ridgid (standing to attention with no animation) extra large huge body type. Say 12-15 feet tall maximum physique with other scaling adjustale. They way it could move would be lying on its back hovering feet first towards things. Because the bodyparts wouldn't move around the body could have a vehicle parts only costume set. Like how arachnos soldiers start with specific costume parts just for them. So for example instead of this vehicle costume having shoulder pads and gloves (in the parts of the 3d model those body parts would be assigned to) it would have parts of a door or side of a vehicle. The head could make parts of a jet engine or exauhst and so on.

I like the just shows up idea. We could make it somewhat innocous looking too. Something that would fit in almost anywhere, like a police call box perhaps?

Another issue is why fight in a vehicle? Especially indoors where the majority of missions are. Why ride a motorcycle in a cave? Or a jewlry store? Or warehouse. You can walk. Plus fighting with a vehicle seems like something you would use to rush by every enemy, shooting as you drove on by. We can't fight and move at the same time and will not. Looks too stupid. Other issue is if you do fight while staying still, it makes you wonder, "Why am I shooting guns on this Motorcycle and just sitting here? I can use fireballs/Super strength/ Assault Rifle/ Mental powers!/Etc. Not many supers use their powers and skill from the seat of their vehicle all the time. And I'm talking about cars and motorcycles...not giant robots.

And if you say to keep it outdoors only, the problem still exists. Fighting from vehicles looks pretty bad. Hence why the Devs were smart enough to turn off all powers on the Rocket Board and Magic Carpet.

Dang I can rant.