Okay, so first of all, I think we should all calm down. This CRT has already stretched on for months at this point, with no end in sight, so I think fighting amongst ourselves is only going to make matters worse. Let's all try to be as productive as possible.
Now, I'm by no means an expert on the Fate series. I'm relatively new to everything, and I've primarily only dabbled in the anime series. I do love the series though, and so I'd like to make a few suggestions that may or may not help resolve the ongoing issue of whether or not Servants should physically scale to their NPs.
Like I said, I'm a relative noob when it comes to Fate, so if anything I say sounds stupid, just take it with a grain of salt XD.
With that being said, here are my suggestions.
Suggestion #1:
From my limited understanding, there seems to be an issue stemming from the fact that NPs are both meant to be a Servant's Ultimate attack/trump card, while simultaneously failing to erase other servants that are physically comparable to the NP's caster.
This sounds remarkably similar to Bijū bombs in Naruto. They're meant to be a Bijū's ultimate attack with the biggest AOE, but the Bijū/Jinchūriki have withstood them on occasion (Though not without some damage), and they can still manage to harm each other physically.
So my suggestion is, why don't we just have the servants downscale from these specific NPs they've tanked? The NP would still scale above, but not so much to where they would be able to vaporize a servant on contact.
So if a NP is 20 Gigatons for example, a servant would simply downscale from it, and that would be the end of it.
Suggestion #2:
I really don't like this one, but it is an option on the wiki for a reason. It does actually help in situations like this. We can simply utilize the "
Likely/Possibly" ratings.
So the ratings would look something like this: At least
Low 7-B, likely/possibly "
whatever NP they would scale to"
This would essentially cover all the basis, and account for both sides of the argument. It's not perfect, but it gets the job done sometimes.
Suggestion #3:
Depending on the number of NPs that clearly scale above servants, we could simply consider those as exceptions. For example, if 8-9/10 NPs scale to physicals, but we have just one or two that break that rule, then I don't think it makes sense to work off of the exception in this case. It's a textbook example of an outlier after all, and should be treated accordingly.
Now I am nowhere near enough of an expert to verify this example, so it's something that you will all have to determine yourselves. But if only a handful of NPs don't scale to physicals, while dozens of others potentially do, then I feel like those exceptions should simply be their own thing tbh.
That's about it. I hope I didn't say anything too stupid lol, but those are pretty much my thoughts on the matter. I hope it brings us closer to finishing this seemingly never-ending CRT
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