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A Perfectly Sane and Scientific Proposal Regarding FTL Speed Categories

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0. Why aren't there category tags for speed when there's category tags for AP? Because I'm pretty sure that's why most matches are Speed Equalized.

1. As the scientific term for Faster than Light Travel is impossible "Superluminal" (Source), and VsBattleWiki prides itself on attempting to preserve some scientific accuracy, the FTL and FTL+ speed category should be renamed to Superluminal and Superluminal+.

2. With this new name, a new system of categorizing superluminal speeds can be established, based on the prefixes for sonic speeds. So-
Superluminal: 1 - 10c
Superluminal+: 10 - 100c
Hyperluminal: 100 - 1,000c
Hyperluminal+: 1,000 - 10,000c
High Hyperluminal: 10,000 - 100,000c
High Hyperluminal+: 100,000 - 1,000,000c
Massively Hyperluminal: 1,000,000 - 1,000,000,000c
Massively Hyperluminal+: Faster than 1,000,000,000c

2.5. An optional + can be added as an indicator for every thousandfold increase in speed after a billion c, so a trillion c is MHL++, a quintillion c is MHL++++, and so on. Naturally Infinite speed will be relabeled to MHL followed by an endless string of plus signs.

3. I am aware that changing the speed ratings labels, not to mention completely reworking the way speed is categorized would be a massive task too complicated for bots to handle, and would most likely suck the life out of the wiki caretakers, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
 
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