Well that's not right!!
I'd take that if eventually a maxed out Superman (in full FF style) could do anything he's supposed to do.
What era ? If we are talking pre crisis he could move the planet and travel time . IF we are talking now , he isn't the strongest in the dcu anymore . Supergirl would actually be somewhat stronger from what we gather and the same goes for doomsday. Grogg is also stronger as he is from the future and uses his power to attack superman and when he takes damage a healed version apears to help or in the latest line an army of groggs come and age superman and kill him thus turning doomsday into a hero who makes the league of supermen to fight grogg at the instance superman dies .... yea head trip .
And this is just as unfair!!
If Batman can just build or buy a "kill superman" weapon, that's just as unfair as having Superman snap his fingers and kill him. Isn't it?
Superman gave batman a kryptonite ring. Batman also made a red hybrid type kryptonite .
I mean is it fair superman can just burn batman into dust ?
The exact solution is in the second sentence, but that's also what will detract from a game set in the DC Universe. For it to be fair and balanced you simply can't be allowed to be like any of the major characters for as long as anyone wants to be able to play as a lesser powered character and still enjoy themselves. To make it fair players will have to make compromises in their character but, as you highlighted below, most of the major characters don't have much by way of compromises.
Sure you can . Listen readers of batman don't expect him to fight doomsday . Just like fans of superman don't expect him to hit up his fortress and use his dective skills to solve a crime . If you pick a batman type char your going to be involved in tons of martial arts battles. If you pick a superman type character your going to be engaged in huge fist fights with no grace just power .
The problem here is that Batman's mental superiority is a storyline benefit, Green Lanterns powers are tangible and realisable through the game engine. For this comparison of how Batman can use his mental abilities to give him an advantage you would have to let the Batman type player have a concept of the situation he was going into and plan it almost Rainbow Six style, while the super-powered player would have to go in blind and you'd still have to hope the Batman type player was intelligent enough to make this work.
Well a gl is limited by his imagination and will power . If your able to distract him he will not be able to hold his contructs or if your able to blind him he will not be able to form them (from dc story lines )
As for planing it out ahead. I agree it will be hard but they can make it work . If your the villian i don't see why you wouldn't have traps set , thats basic villiany 101 . For characters like superman since they have the brute force they rush in . Batman like characters they plan what they are going to do .
Okay, this could work, have a "players lounge" where the heroes can get together to talk and socialise, but when they go into the game aproper they are split into different zones depending upon their range of powers, so the more powerful characters are kept seperated from the "powerful human" type characters.
THey can do that . I was also thinking if they do super teams you can all meet on your moon base or whatever and get missons to complete. A green lantern would get space missions and a human would get city based missions . Then if you group its an earth based mission but its equal parts stealth and equal parts brute force .
Really its hte pvp that would be a bitch to do . Then again they don't have to do pvp . Coh didn't have pvp and eq2 doesn't have pvp .
That's the problem, "1 weakness". Where does the average player find Kryptonite while wandering the games cities?
Well actually in batman superman 11 i believe a huge chunk of krypton almost smashed into earth and it was destroyed before it could but dumped tons of kryptonite onto the planet which the heros cleaned up so superman wouldn't die . If they base the dcu after this event (they will most likely base it after this upcoming crisis they are building towards ) kryptonite shouldn't be that uncommon.
Now in regards to your suggestion. You could also create batarangs with shards of kryptonite in them that expload . You can turn it into a liquid and shoot him with a dark gun. You can make a laser gun out of it . You could set up the fight where supermans speed and flight powers are no use to him . Superman actually has 3 weaknesses. Magic , kryptonite and red solar energy .
If your the villian superman would come to your lair . You can have the lights generate red solar engery , have a magic sword with a kryptonite shield and kill superman . or whatever .
Against a green lantern you can use a qwardian ring which is a yellow ring instead of green .
In a marvel game your going to have the same problems. You have your ultimate heros in that too. How is cyclops going to beat the hulk ? How is jubelee goign to be thor ?
