A Fun, but not Perfect Superhero MMO game concept

Here is my idea for a new superhero MMO

Flight characters: Have full range flight abilities all the time, even during combat time. However, flight is not like the flight your used too.

Flight is thrust vector based. Which means you will keep moving in a direction until you apply counter thrust (just like zero G). That should give the non-flyers a fighting chance. You can increase your speed over time with points, but initially it won't be super high speed. But the speed will cap eventually.

Speedsters: Will exist, and can use their speed as much as they wan't, but they will require recharge times for instant speed moves.

Super strong characters: Will exist too, having the ability to jump really high.

Blasters: Will exist, will have the best ranged combat in the game. The downside is they lack the durability of the other archetypes as well as the travel abilities.

Energy Wielders: Think guys like Magneto, basically a cross between a flyer and a blaster, not doing either as well as the true archetypes of flight or blaster. Yet they do have really good area attacks for short ranges. Moving stuff via wind, telekinesis or magnetism.

The main difference between this MMO and the popular ones is the flight system and combat system.

Normal MMO's nerf travel speed during combat, but this concept would not do that.

The flight system would be different, but I think it would make for some interesting flight battles.

You could also add vehicles to characters who don't have travel powers. Or you could buy travel powers with points. Vehicles are cheaper to buy than powers.

So... DC Universe Online? Also, you didn't really elaborate at all. You just said 'people can fly and use vehicles'. That sounds like most MMO's.

@awesam:

I did. DC universe does not allow for flight battles (people flying and battling in the air only).

DC universe slows your travel speed during combat.

My concept would allow you to fly full speed during combat, as well as use any other travel powers at full power.

@lorbo: You can fly while battling and they slow it down so people don't zoom away when their HP gets low. Letting people (especially flyers) use full speed in combat is dumb and unfair.

@awesam:

Not really, because gadgets like rocket launchers are are available.

And due to newtonian maneuvers for flight, it isn't a simple matter of doing banking turns to evade missiles. The only way to change direction is with vector based thrust (a super power) with the flight power.

@lorbo: Now you're over-complicating it. Also, does everyone get a rocket launcher? Again, this is all very complicated for an MMO. They have to be simple.

@awesam:

You have to buy a rocket launcher with points.

Even though environments are free roaming, radar shows finite areas as battle areas. Sure you can battle in non-battle areas, but you won't get ANY points for upgrades if you do.

Battle areas where you get points would be limited, so a flyer who flew away automatically will lose points they earned.

So flyers would have incentive to stay around and risk their lives, to get points to upgrade.