[OOC] Arena Chat Thread

[Fallenreaper]

I think Skally is tryna kill me

@Rilla

And are you making it easy for him? Cause if you are, maybe you shouldn't? After all, that's almost as bad as a strip tease. :p

[Rilla]

He's just a crazed Rilla killer.

[Fallenreaper]

He's just a crazed Rilla killer.

@Rilla

Well, if he keeps doing it, apparently you make it fun somehow. XD

[GreivousKhan]

I wonder if this would be bad timing to start up my tier one melee fights. :K

[Rilla]

just make sure you are well off using submissions and grapples, or Skally will mutilate you.

[GreivousKhan]

Hello arena folks!

So quick question, is anyone interested in being a judge for a melee I plan to run?

Its not ranked (not the first series anyway) but I still would like a judge for it if anyone is free. Its for the same melee I hosted in interest you might have seen.

[ImportantNobody]

I'm wondering about "tier levels" a bit in my multiverse. If the main characters are in a tier a million times more powerful than a normal person, that likely doesn't translate into a million times higher stats. For example on small scale, if someone is twice as powerful as someone else, I believe they should be able to defeat more than two people given the same skill level, or do you think twice as high stats should almost exactly equal two people? Or even be worse than two people? And does this analogy completely fall apart the higher you go no matter what option you think it would be? Someone does comment in universe about how it's impossible to imagine the difference in power between the elite and the common folk, after all, but I'm trying to get a better general idea of their physical characteristics being a million times more powerful than normal humans.

To destroy a planet, a million times higher stats wouldn't cut it, only around the level of tossing around the empire state building at that level. However, if one had the strength to lift the empire state building, how much force would that equate to a punch in the ground? Would that, in fact, demolish a city, which is around the power level I imagine the main characters of their tier?

Any thoughts on this? Also, how would the Dreamers fall into this scale? 1 million times? 1 billion times?

EDIT: I calculated the PSI of such a punch (1 million times stronger than average boxers) as 6.894745e+12, which, according to this chart, places it as the pressure of the national ignition facility fusion reactor. It's two orders of magnitude weaker than the weakest nuclear bomb mentioned in the list but could obliterate graphene, the strongest material.

[LeeRoy]

Dude, I math a lot with my mythos. But you're mathing way too hard.

[Rilla]

It falls apart at the seams at the first instance on the small scale.

I can lift 100 pounds, for example, you can lift 200. That doesn't make you stronger than me + another, that makes you stronger than me times two.

[ImportantNobody]

Dude, I math a lot with my mythos. But you're mathing way too hard.

@LeeRoy

It's important to stay consistent with their powers or else they all of a sudden become horribly weaker or stronger without me knowing it and for no reason. One day they toss a skyscrapper and the next a sheet of graphene and inch thick stops them. Can they have enough power to be stopped by that? Who knows if I don't do calculations.

EDIT: Although I think the power level was one or two powers of 10 above graphene's tensile strength, but you get the point.

It falls apart at the seams at the first instance on the small scale.

I can lift 100 pounds, for example, you can lift 200. That doesn't make you stronger than me + another, that makes you stronger than me times two.

@Rilla

The scale takes the average, eliminating that issue completely. The value of a standard person is a set one in their calculations, so I would be a 2 and you would be a 1 if you are the standard value for 1, and if being twice as strong does indeed make me twice as "powerful", meaning I could take on two of you because of this.

[Skallagrim]

That doesn't work so well in real life, but since you are working a multiversal aspect for your universe. It shouldn't matter because it is your universe. You can make the numbers mean what ever you want, you're God.

[Rilla]

The thing is, even in your universe, just about anyone you face will be above average. So NPCs, maybe, but then again you can jsut have yourself murdering them all. Once you start playing with other people/important NPCs, that probably goes right out the window.

[ImportantNobody]

It actually becomes easier to compare higher level opponents due to much more numbers being needed to increase to get twice as powerful. For example, lets say you have someone who can beat an army of 500 base value of 1 humans. Someone twice as strong as this 500 person would need to be at 1,000, so you have a good grasp of how powerful the two are among one another if you stay within a thousand or so points. You could imagine someone with 750 points being as strong as the 500 plus 50% more power pretty easily. If you see a big difference then you can easily just have them get crushed and not worry too much about how badly they'd get crushed. Having a 1 pointer up against a 500 or a 1,000 would end the same so it doesn't really matter at that point unless they bring a whole lot of friends.

Most characters taking part in fighting would be much higher than 1, but if there was an army of 50 pointers then you can easily determine that the 500 should be able to fight 10 of them and the 1,000 should fight 20. Upsets do happen but they came up with some sort of a scale to try and better judge the outcome of fights.

[Skallagrim]

Too many numbers. But if that suits your needs ok.

[Fallenreaper]

Too many numbers. But if that suits your needs ok.

@Skallagrim

Numbers....*shudders*

[Rilla]

Numbers, the reasons more fights end in OOC disagreements than actual fun. WOOOOOOOOo

[ImportantNobody]

Fine. I'll just go for contradictory awesomeness.

[ShidenBlades]

Who wants to throw down against Nicoli in a ranked match?

I can post several times a day during the weekdays, so someone that can post frequently would be prefered.

I would prefer a powered match, so I can use Nicoli to his full potential. But, I'm always willing to drop down to a lesser tier as well.

[DJAtomika]

@ShidenBlades Sure. I have a host of characters you can pick from. Link in my signature. Just ignore the non arena characters.

Also, recently I've been thinking about a massive story based crossover based strictly in the arena. Like, all the regulars and their fave characters in some story based epic fight against some huge nightmarish force that threatens the multiverse as a whole.

Would have each of our regulars as their iconic character, like Skall as himself, Rilla as Rilla or Tre'Yan, stuff like that, and everyone teams up against a player or GM controlled massive threat.

How's that sound, and like if it were a thing how would it work?

[ShidenBlades]

@DJAtomika

I'll take a look at the characters and let you know.

The story things sounds awesome. I'd be down with Nicoli if he fits the power scheme.

Edit: Maybe I need to rethink my version of 'powered'. Nicoli is grossly overmatched in that Tier. Hmmm.

Ishida looks like a fun match up. I always did prefer melee.