Kepekley23 said:
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Tiers 4 through 3 rely on the distance between each galaxy or solar system in order to obtain the necessary energy to destroy one. However, once you enter Tier 2, this method is completely unusable, because the distance between two continuums isn't physically measurable. It is not as simple as putting two and two together. Energy as we know it, watts\joules, is utterly immeasurable.
I never implied Tier 2 functioned in a joule-ish fashion. There is a big difference between measuring the joule output of an expanding radius of destruction and the multiplicative power difference between two levels. One uses mathematically formulas that only apply to joules and energy output, and the other uses basic logically reasoning that should be present throughout all layers of our tiering system. I am not suggesting we try to quantify the Tier 2 tiers in an energy output fashion, but if something follows basic principles of mathematics, regardless of the energy form or fundamental principle behind it, multipliers apply. While this is using math, it is using the most fundamentally basic math that is applied to the structure as a whole, not to the energy output of a feat, which is utterly unquantifiable by our knowledge of joules and energy.
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Due to the fact energy caps are no longer quantifiable, multipliers ain't cutting it. We're going to need feats. I will exemplify that soon.
But we currently aren't going by feats. Being over 1000x 2-C is treated as 2-B. Being infinitely above any other Tier 2 tier is treated as 2-A.
We already use multipliers within these tiers, as it makes logical sense, but we are selective with Low 2-C and 2-C, as we also want to put in place the "5-D space" despite acknowledging multiplicative logical progression in the rest of the tier. This isn't just "math works in Tier 2" it is "logic applies to Tier 2 and the multiplication of existing levels of power is merely logical reasoning, not an attempt to formulate a concrete energy value using mathematical equations".
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Your mistake is trying to quantify Tier 2 with a standard mathematical approach. It is nowhere near as simple as putting 2 and 2 together, or even infinities together.
See above. We already do have this approach to the tier as it isn't just mathematical. It is logic. We are just inconsistent in our standards and application of logical scaling within tier 2.
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The fact is, no matter how many times you keep multiplying Low 2-C, it is not going to breach into 2-C, as the distance between two continuums isn't physically measurable. So treating 2-C as "2x Low 2-C" doesn't solve the problem, it dances around it.
Unless that value reaches infinity, of course, then we treat it like 2-A and are perfectly fine with it. And it solves the problem better than we are currently doing for reasons I'll address later.
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The fact is, dividing the feat between the two to still get 2-C is straight up incorrect, as their best feats are Low 2-C. Not 2-C. So feats once again solve this issue rather easily. Have a 2-C feat? You're 2-C. You don't? Then you're Low 2-C, no matter how many times you multiply your power.
I think you missed my point here. That is their problem; it makes no logical sense that you can't divide 2-C, yet you can divide all the other tiers and still get a result. Even if you have to divide/multiply the other tiers by literal infinity, it still works from a logical and mathematical perspective.
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Because it is utterly unquantifiable in this manner. We know it is not as simple as Low 2-C > 2x > 2-C, so we just have to deal with this fact and use a feat-based system, where the characters that have 2-C feats or statements are 2-C, while the ones who only have vague multipliers aren't. In fact, 2-B is destroying 1,000 universes, not having your 2-C power multiplied by 500. So is 2-A, except you're destroying infinite universes. Your solution is not fixing the issue, it's adding to it.
If it truly is like this, we need to be consistent. Right now we aren't. I can see the argument for an elitist "feats or bust" tiering system for Tier 2 and beyond, but right now we don't have that. You can still be 2-A by being literally infinitely superior to a Low 2-C. You can be High 2-A by being infinitely superior to an 2-A being, and such an increase is even defined in our tiering system right now in regard to uncountable infinity, which is an outright mathematical concept.
This still doesn't address the inconsistency of needing 5-D power to breach 2-C. This explanation completely ignores the inconsistency of Tier 2 and acts like everything is fine, when in reality we seem to use logical progression within parts of it, yet not others, and act like 5-D is High 2-A even though 5-D is already obtained at 2-C.
Not only is this inconsistency an issue, but you also make it seem like the gap between Low 2-C and 2-C being incalculable as something that is OK. It isn't. If we were using an exclusive "feats or not that tier" system, we would also have to get rid of the already present multiplicative increases found in 2-C to 2-A. You say that Low 2-C to 2-C can't be calculated, yet I say that they should if we acknowledge that the gap between 2-C and 2-A can be. And before you say that it can't, we
already treat it as such. The gap between 2-C and 2-A is infinity, just as the gap between Low 2-C and 2-B to 2-A is infinity. That is a multiplicative increase, just as the jump from 2 universes to 1002 universe is a multiplicative increase. While we leave individual sub-tiers for dimensional power upon arrival at Low 1-C and instead adopt the dimensional tiering, the power within each dimensional tier still ranges by infinity. If there were hypothetical sub-tiers for the higher dimensions, they would still be bound by basic mathematical progression, as such progression is a basic byproduct of general causality and logic. This isn't me trying to put a formula on the higher tiers, it is solving inconsistency in the way we treat them despite multiplicative increases being present in all tiers bar Low 2-C.
Either we completely cut all multiplicative scaling in tier 2 and beyond and adopt an absolutist "feats only" mentality, even for infinite increases, or we get rid of this stipulation and let logic and mathematical progression play out its course.
What problems would this create that you mention? It is easy to say something will "make more problems than it solves" but if you can't actually name valid problems that it will bring about then it seems like fluffy wording that tries to make your argument sound stronger while not having a basis. If you bring specific problems to the table that this makes that are more significant than the blatant inconsistency of our current standards I would be glad to address them. I truly believe that everything that this would cause if regard to the changing of the standards of tier 2 is already solved in the other tiers and can be brought over to tier 2 to nullify a potential problem.