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┬┐When was agreed that Speed equalization brings both combatants to the lower speed stat?
- Thread starter PaChi2
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WHEN it was I don't know.
However, it makes sense to do that.
However, it makes sense to do that.
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I've never fully understood how this works, especially since going in either direction can potentially neuter one side during certain matchups.
Example 1: Speed equalized to lower speed. Slower character can manipulate cloud-to-ground lightning, but is nowhere near MHS+ in terms of speed. Other character proceeds to take lightning bolts to the face without any means of defending themselves and probably dies as a result. (Especially if their baseline durability is lower than Building level, which is true of a fair number of magic users.)
Example 2: Speed equalized to higher speed. Faster character is rated at MHS, whereas the slower character has Subsonic projectiles. Slower character still fails to hit the faster character and probably dies as a result.
I've been told that speed equalization doesn't equalize attacks or projectiles, and that's honestly part of what this issue stems from. Even if it did equalize those, that would also be weird. You'd have things like Subsonic CtG lightning bolts and MHS+ machinegun bullets, and characters with a limited number of ranged options would inevitably become fodder.
Example 1: Speed equalized to lower speed. Slower character can manipulate cloud-to-ground lightning, but is nowhere near MHS+ in terms of speed. Other character proceeds to take lightning bolts to the face without any means of defending themselves and probably dies as a result. (Especially if their baseline durability is lower than Building level, which is true of a fair number of magic users.)
Example 2: Speed equalized to higher speed. Faster character is rated at MHS, whereas the slower character has Subsonic projectiles. Slower character still fails to hit the faster character and probably dies as a result.
I've been told that speed equalization doesn't equalize attacks or projectiles, and that's honestly part of what this issue stems from. Even if it did equalize those, that would also be weird. You'd have things like Subsonic CtG lightning bolts and MHS+ machinegun bullets, and characters with a limited number of ranged options would inevitably become fodder.
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I would assume it's because there'd be no reason to scale the lower person to the higher person, when the person with lower speed has no feats of being faster, but the faster person has feats of being slower.
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Rule of thumb for speed equalized threads, ignore the speed section, simple.
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