Common Calc Concern: Evading the punches of other characters

[Jasonsith]

True but then people would bring up issues with Supersonic stuff, as that's Mach 1.1 instead of Mach 1.000000001 or similar.

The beautiful part is that we have the term transonic to capture speeds in between Mach 0.9 to Mach 1.1.

Also I remember a sonic boom speed has been calculated so no need to estimate.

The imperfect part is that we do not have similar measures for speed of light.
So when one can tag light movement one is blindly assigned 1.1 c instead of actually calculating the yield.

 

[Antvasima]

Have you reached any conclusions here?

 

[DMUA]

Going off of M3X's earlier writeup of how this should be incorporated onto the pages...

"Refrain from calculating feats based on dodging attacks from other characters at extreme proximity, as this is primarily a trope used to exaggerate a narrow miss rather than a literal representation of overwhelming speed. Taking it at face value is often inconsistent with the battle in which the feat occurs, where the opponents are presented as equals, but the calculation results in them being considered several times faster. This should only be used when the character in question is greatly superior to the one who's attack he is evading and the speed of the attack is concretely stated, such as being able to surpass the speed of sound, or light, or uses a basis in the Real World such as the speed of an athlete's punch. If the two fighters are equal, you should simply scale them to the stated speed of the attack, or off of other feats they perform."

Does anyone have something else they should add, or should we just go ahead and put this on Projectile Dodging Feats/Calculations?

currently I guess we just need the calculations page (since I think that'll be less clunky to implement this into) to be opened so we can edit this into the rules under speed, since these seem to be universally approved of guidelines

 

[Therefir]

I have opened the Calculations page.

 

[Therefir]

I just went ahead and added it, this thread can be closed.

 

[DMUA]

oh, yeah I wasn't checking the thread at the time

Guess that wraps it up then

 

[KingTempest]

I'll close it

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you to everybody who helped out here.

 

[Antvasima]

@Therefir

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