[Torg] Jumping in Torg

[Benjmain Grant]

Interesting - so if we use the speed value minus 5 as the basis, than a
flash style super-speedster character going say 7500 mph (his max speed)
would be a speed value of around what, 23?  23-5=18, meaning a jump distance
of 4000 meters or about 13,125 feet (about 2.5 miles) long jumping.

Sound about right?

Then if we figure that the max height of a jump is about 3 less than the max
length (from your response about the limit of a height jump being 0) this
would indicate a mex height of 18-3=15, or 1000 meters - about 3300 feet up.

Sound good?

What happens when he pushes?

Thanks.

-Benn Grant
eFix Computer Consulting
benn at 4eFix.com
603.283.6601


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of Kansas Jim
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:26 PM
To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
Subject: Re: [Torg] Jumping in Torg

Benjmain Grant wrote:

> Followup - what if instead of a human jumping we are driving a car jumping
a
> gap - how far can we jump going 30mph?  How far going 100 mph?  What if
the
> car has 1 ton of extra cargo in the trunk? Do limits values still apply?
Is
> the system by which this is determined consistent with the system by which
> we determine how far a human jumps?

There are no rules in the game for determining how far a vehicle can
jump, not even the expanded vehicle rules in the Kanawa Land Vehicles
Catalog mentions it.

The Mythbusters found that you could jump a car about 172 feet if it's
going 70 mph and uses a ramp at 30 degrees. (The car was totaled, but
of course that never happens in the movies!) In Torg terms that would
be a jump distance value of 9 while traveling at a speed value of 13.
That difference of four is only one away from the 'average DEX - 5'
rule for determining the long jump limit value, if we substitute a
vehicle's speed value for 'average DEX' maybe a 30 degree ramp is worth
a +1 to the jump distance? Or perhaps the Mythbusters got a +1 push
result on their jump attempt thanks to the DN being reduced a few points
for using a ramp?

-- 
Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
Torg website: http://www.sdc.org/~ksjim/index.html
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