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So, to sparkle up some discussion
The smurf thread has culminated (in summary) into the following changes for smurf hax:
- Characters with smurf range don't inherently have smurf potency too, meaning that a 3D character merely having hax with the range or area of effect at 5D or above won't mean it'll bypass a non-smurf 3-D character. For it to qualify as smurf, such hax has to be shown as capable of focusing on a single 3D target or similar.
- The opposite is also true, a character with smurf potency doesn't inherently has smurf range too, meaning that a 3D character having hax with 1-A potency isn't necessarily able to inherently hax a character that size-wise is 5-D or above, out of being unable to significantly reach a remotely notable amount of their being.
- Characters that are only 4-D or above stats wise (as in, AP, Durability and the like), but still of a lower dimensionality size-wise (for example, most tier 2 characters are 3D), aren't inherently immune to hax that entirely ignores durability, as they'd be within effective range for 3D hax abilities, only notable exception is Matter Manipulation and similar as the bonds of the character's atoms apparently would have to be infinitely higher than compared to "normal" 3D matter for the sake of their durability.
- Abilities based on cognition from the opponent, most commonly Madness Manipulation type 3, work regardless of dimensionality, so long the target can perceive them, as such similar arguments can also be made for Social Influencing on this regard.
In other words, smurf hax criteria got wider and some smurf hax is almost no better than normal hax beyond being able to consistently affect characters that are size-wise 4-D or above.
Will any placements get affected by this in particular?
SO higher D mind is affected by 3D hax or do we assume that just because the body is higher D the mind is not if not stated?
Affecting higher D structure is not enough for higher D hax but all you need to show now is that you can just affect 3D target with it? Might just affect series which don't have 3D characters but that's all.
Most of these things are how we have always done things.