Thread:Redfork2000/@comment-30384301-20190109034934/@comment-26888167-20190201024957

Well, Sonic's top speed is a very polemic discussion. Some people say he only reaches the speed of sound. Others say he can reach the speed of light. And others say he's even faster than light. There isn't an exact speed everyone, or at least most people agree on.

What I mean is light speed is OP on it's own. Even if you didn't have any other abilities, moving at the speed of light is already OP, without any other abilities.

Let's see: The speed of light is 186,000 miles per SECOND.

Let's see a real life example of how OP speed light can be. Do you know what the perimeter of the Earth is? You know, the distance you'd have to travel one full circle around the Earth?

There's two known perimeters. The longest one is the horizontal perimeter, the one described by the Equator. It's 24,901 miles. And the other perimeter, which is a circle that passes through both poles, is even shorter. What does this mean?

186000 ÷ 24901 = 7.469.

What does this mean? It basically means that if you go at the speed of light, you could spin around the Earth seven times in one second. Do you get what I'm saying?

Here's another example. It takes light a bit more than eight minutes to reach our planet. What does this mean? Someone who could go at the speed of light would be able to travel from the Earth to the sun in only eight minutes.

Consider just how OP it would be to actually have the speed of light. You'd be basically untouchable, since no matter who tries to attack you, they'd never be able to land a single hit on you. Homing missiles, guns, all of that would mean nothing to someone who can travel at the speed of light. Remember traveling at the speed of light means you can go around the Earth seven times in just one second. With that kind of speed, it's practically impossible for anyone to land a hit. Even half the speed of light would still be OP, since you'd still be able to go around the Earth three and a half times in a single second.

I get the thing about speed of light sounds cool and all, but the reason why I've never made a character that fast, is because when you think about what traveling at the speed of light really means, it's one of the most OP powers anyone can have. Even someone without any other powers, would be able to overcome even the strongest opponent if they could travel at that speed.

In fact, I believe even characters of the likes of PHX-001, Storm Cloud and Ink Smash would struggle to fight with someone that can move that fast. How do you land an attack on someone who could easily go around the world and come back in the time you take to merely blink? I believe the only exceptions would be Shogo & Captain Dark Shell since they can use levitation to paralyze their foes, or Discord since he can alter the laws of physics to prevent his opponent from moving that fast, but even in those cases, actually managing to affect a target that moves that fast would still be a huge challenge.

Meanwhile, the speed of sound is a speed that, although still pretty fast, is a lot more manageable, and a lot less gamebreaking. The speed of sound is 767 mph. That's still almost seven times the fastest a cheetah can move, but it's not as gamebreaking as light speed is.