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    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    Kobold

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    Default Re: A player's revenge

    Quote Originally Posted by stenver View Post
    can anyone give me drawing or explain really good what just happened? Im not that good in physics and how did that explosion happen, exactly?

    Teleport isnt faster then speed of light, it is jumping from one place to another.
    It helps if you've played Portal, as the demonstration of the gameplay really hits the underlying rule of this home. Basically, you assume that the momentum of an object being teleported is conserved (or in layman's term "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out"). So, say you have a (frictionless) environment with gravity, and a teleporter entrance and exit ten meters apart vertically (they're on top of each other).

    You drop an item in at the top of the system, and it falls for one second acquiring a velocity of 9.8m/s (assuming Earth gravity) then travels into the teleporter entrance. It then teleports to the exit, which is on top of it, and acquires another 9.8m/s of speed every second of this, forever. Since there is no friction, aka air, to slow the object down, there is no terminal velocity, and thus no limit to how fast an object could become from doing this. Hell, you don't even need indestructible items to pull this off, the indestructible RKV's just make it all the more 'oh god we're dead' thing.

    This is assuming he's used a similar system though.

    Edit: You could, potentially, do this with a bag of holding if you assume whatever sub pocket dimension/whatever that the items you place in it are junted to still possess gravity. Then you would only need to somehow get it to hold two portals and set the items in motion. Then you would only need to change the exit portal to your intended target, and then make peace with your gods because anything you use that on within sight is still going to turn you into submolecular ash.
    Last edited by Amoren; 2010-08-29 at 06:23 AM.