What happened to the Surfboard?

UI nightmare happened.

If you find gunship transports perhaps not entirely straightforward to use? Now imagine if they also were subject to Spring pathfinding and had to land their cargo on shores.

rather: Why cant I get regular ferrying to work?

Yes that works, but the dedicated ferrying tool does not

If I turned the surfboard into a hoverboard, would it be worth the maintenance/bug fixing/cost?

Le idea:

Hoverboard (Floating Weapons Platform):
- Has personal shield (1000 strength, 25 regen)
- HP: 2000
- Cost: 200
- All factories may build it.
- Units on the hoverboard may fire at other units.
- Speed: 2.2
- Units costing more than 1500m slow it by .1 for every 250m over 1500m down to a speed of 1.2 @ 4000m.

Utility provided compared to Hercules/Charon/Djinn/Lobster:
- Allows land units to fight on water unlike Djinn.
- Allows sea units to enter and fight on land without jankiness, unlike lobster.
- Allows units to fire from it, unlike Hercules/Charon.

Only reason I built surfboards was to load roaches and get rid of nasty amph players/sub spammers. I considered that pretty op. But now we have a unit that does the same without the added cost of the roach.

I remember the counter argument was that even the much more versatile aerial transports are used very rarely. Once they are reliable and used, then we can add more transport-type stuff.

I heard about this on the wiki and assumed units can attack while they were on the Surfboard, which I think is cool.

yea, amphs on surfboard would fire surface and torpedo weapons at the same time.

Brexit.