Starline said one core can double your already immense strength to Zavok. Nothing more, there was no mention of Power Cores having any effect on eachother or on it even being a "multiplier" as the wiki defines it rather than an increase that would coincidentally correlate to a two times increase for Zavok in the same way (1 × 2) = (1 + 1) so the assumption that Power Cores aren't just multipliers but also actively stack on top of eachother as well is headcanon especially when Starline says absolutely nothing about what having multiple Power Cores does.
They are not having effects on eachother tho? They are affecting the base value... said value is multiplied by 2 times twice, making it be mutiplied 4x in total...
on it even being a "multiplier" as the wiki defines it rather than an increase that would coincidentally correlate to a two times increase for Zavok in the same way (1 × 2) = (1 + 1)
Starline LITERALLY says it would double Zavok's strenght... yes, it is directly said to be a multiplier... you need to go out of your way to even begin saying it isn't
Firstly I'm not insane enough to calculate it, but I'm willing to bet that in gameplay Sonic isn't literally 7.9x faster using the boost than without it so no we are never shown how much faster Sonic is with the boost outside of purely the numbers registered by the SPD meter. Although even if I was wrong in that regard and the on screen gameplay miraculously did correlate with the SPD meter that doesn't change the fact that we extrapolated a multiplier from solely gameplay mechanics.
Which might I add is no less absurd than concluding that Super Sonic is canonically a 60x multiplier not because of any actual lore but because of the in game damage he does to the Titans in Sonic Frontiers when using his super form compared to the damage his base form does to Gaurdians. All that is to say that extrapolating multipliers from gameplay mechanics for techniques that are never stated or implied to be multipliers is absurd.
ANd yet you were defending nuking a multiplier cuz of hit points in game?
As i said, Shake explained it better than me... so i won't bother to explain further
Starline quote was one core can double "your" already immense strength.
Yes? Cuz Zavok was the one he was using as an example?... was this suppose to prove something?
Besides saying nothing about what having several Power Cores does the amplification provided specifically applies to the user and it is illogical to assume from that statement alone that the second Power Core or the third will do anything more than power up the user independently of the other Cores.
Yes? If i multiply a base value by two twice... it gets multiplied 4 times in total
the effect is on the user... that's the point, said base value is simply now higher cuz it was already multiplied
Firstly Eggman updates his tech all the time so it isn't implausible to assume something similar has happened with Power Cores.
Show proof... conjecure isn't proof
Second I'm not proposing necessarily that they are strictly additive just that their multipliers shouldn't stack
that is literally not logical tho? Why would applying a multiplier twice... not result in said multiplier applying twice?
and besides with either explanation how would 2-C power cores not create circular scaling by default - like oh yes Eggman needs to drain the Sol Emeralds to make his Egg Salamander that scales to half of a 12 universe feat, never-mind that he just has random Power Cores lying around that can greatly amplify characters that are rated higher than that.
Hence why they are not 2-C in energy, they are just multipliers, thank you for agreeing with me that your headcanon about them makes no sense
Third my explanation is the only one with internal logic and here's why by cross comparing our models with a consistency check.
Assumption 1 - Power Cores of the same type are equal to eachother in energy unless otherwise stated.
Assumption 2 - One red Power Core can double Zavoks strength.
Assumption 3 - Power Cores amplify their user specifically.
No sequitur, nothing indicates the conclusion to assumption 3... you showed yourself that it makes no sense earlier
Your explanation: Zavok = 1, with 1 core = 2, with 2 cores = 4 and with 3 cores = 8.
VS assumption 1: It doesn't check out, the increases are only the same multiplicatively but otherwise Core three granting an increase of 4 grants far more than core two with an increase of 2 which grants more than core one with an increase of 1. Those gaps don't make sense with each Power Core having a finite supply of energy that is equal to eachother without unfounded headcanon.
VS assumption 2: True core one happens to double Zavoks strength.
VS assumption 3: Only sort of true. The Power Cores no doubt boost Zavok but they also boost eachother since Zavoks strength with one power core isn't solely his power the only way the overall power he's using can double again with a second core is if said core amplifies more than just Zavoks own strength.
My explanation: Zavok = 1, with one core = 2, with two cores = 3 and with three cores = 4 (Zavoks base strength doubles each time which adds +1 but the amps are separate).
VS assumption 1: It checks out each core grants the same amount of overall power as the first one did.
VS assumption 2: It also checks out one core does indeed bring Zavok from a 1 to a 2.
VS assumption 3: Also works, each core only doubles Zavoks base strength which happens to add +1 with each core as each amp works separately.
they are not boostinf eachother tho? Inventing an explanation to make the conclusion you don't like seem absurd is a strawman
Zavok = 1
Zavok 1 x 2(PC) = 2
Zavok(pc) 2 x 2 (Another PC) = 4
Zavok(2PCs) x 2 (Another PC) = 8
Aka... each power core multiplies by 2... it is just applied 3 times, equalling 8 for the base value
Again, simple math logic
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