Is Attack Potency Additive or Multiplicative?

[Kamekaizen]

I don't know much about physics and so this might be a very dumb question.

A character has a 9-B AP with his gun and has the ability to create more of that weapon. If that character is given enough prep time to accumulate 100 guns, will they yield an AP ×100 of the original this time?

 

[Kamekaizen]

BUMP

 

[Ricsi-viragosi]

Like, if they hit and set of once, at the same place? In that case... eh, they could stack theoretically (so X10) but the blasts would just hit and weaken each other to an extent. It would still be stronger, but I have no idea by how much.

 

[Andytrenom]

If the missiles aren't fired at the exact same point, then at a specific point you obviously wouldn't be getting the combined output of the explosions

How exactly you will figure out the sum total energy I'm not sure about

 

[Kamekaizen]

Editted for a better context

 

[Andytrenom]

"A character has a 9-B AP with his gun and has the ability to create more of that weapon. If that character is given enough prep time to accumulate 100 guns, will they yield an AP ×100 of the original this time?"

I can say with almost complete certainty that no, we wouldn't treat it this way

 

[Ricsi-viragosi]

Yeah, in this case, no.

 

[Kamekaizen]

I was thinking if Mysterio used all of his drones (which was at least almost a thousand) to attack Peter at the same time, he could've possibly killed him.

 

[Ugarik]

AP is multiplicative. If B is 2 times stronger that A and C is 3 times stronger that B that means C is 6 times stronger than A

I even made a threat claiming the + mark should start if the AP is above geometric mean (correct average from multiplicative units) insted of arithmetic one but it was rejected.

 

[Therefir]

I was thinking if Mysterio used all of his drones (which was at least almost a thousand) to attack Peter at the same time, he could've possibly killed him.

Then Mysterio would be just using thousands of 8-C attacks, obviously it would kill Spider-Man, since he doesn't have enough stamina to take all that damage, but someone of a much higher tier shouldn't be affected, because the result would be the same as thousands of people hitting a steel wall all at once.

 

[Ugarik]

No, if thousands of people manage hit hit one wall at the same time they will break it. However a single person can never break a wall no matter how many times they are going to hit it. I can explain how it works from a physical point of view if I need

 

[Therefir]

The steel wall was just an example, but I'd like to hear your explanation about how something like that would be possible.

 

[Ricsi-viragosi]

I mean, if something was hit by multiple things at once and had a better resistance to teari g then bending, then the kinetic energy of multiple attacks would stack.

But without a medium like a siege engine, it's really difficult to find something like that.

 

[Antoniofer]

Force is not accumulative, however, if a strike is capable to surpass the Yield Point of a material it means that any of those strikes will cause permanent damage, several strikes will eventually destroy it. If the attacks do not surpass the Yield Point that's means that no matter how much one strikes the material, it wouldn't cause real damage.