This is a bad idea; easily obtainable foot soldier transportation, sans limitations? Troopers need to have to rely on the established vehicles, or they'll be able to get into the fray too quickly; instant Vanu zerg. The tears of every player would cry tears. And those tears would yell, "Soooooo OP, nerf now!"
Hoverboards would detract heavily from the importance of vehicles to the Vanu, too, which would just about ruin the balance of power thing the devs seem to want for *some* reason. And anything you give the other factions that could actually even that sort of -bleep-ed up playing field would be, due to the fact that they'd be meant to counter the OP hoverboard, overpowered themselves. Any other counterbalance given to the sides that's meant to simply negate the hoverboard would make the whole scheme a boring addition; a mostly pointless layer of rock-paper-scissors complexity, added just because "a hoverboard would be cool", not because it would be integral to the gameplay in any way.
It would be a tacked on, boring nod to Back to the Future that would probably end up cut in the first patch.
So yeah, not the best idea.
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