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Hello,
Okay so I was looking at some of our sample vehicles and 2 in particular seem to be a bit off on their speeds. The Goblin Junkcycle and the Energy Cycle. These are our two motorcycle equivalents with the goblin junker being our quintessential crotch rocket type motorcycle that is fast, faster, and your going to kill yourself fast. It moves through a city at 28MPH...wait what?
It's top speed is 28MPH? ...WHAT!?! I even checked the math. It moves 250 feet per 6 seconds. X10 to get feet per minute X 60 to get feet per hour then divided that by 5280 the number of feet in a mile...to get...28.4 MPH... This thing is supposed to be our crotch rocket that shoot through city streets at suicidal speeds. It's top speed should be 200MPH...
And the energy cycle is worse. Okay so this is supposed to be our Cruiser/Hog equivalent so I'll give it a pass at top speed 120 cruising speed of 60MPH but how the hell is this thing a thing at 22mph? We do the same math and get a top speed of 22.7MPH? ...The hell? Are star finder vehicles crawling along? Is this an indication of just how bad the traffic is in this universe?
I mean the Humvee equivalent is surely slower moving over it's intended terrain of off road and it's a wheeled vehicle too as opposed to our hovering energy cycle, and has armored panels to protect its driver and 3 passengers. So this clearly heavy vehicle should be plodding along at 22 MPH as well... Nope 40 mph off road.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? This makes my brain hurt here. Our two vehicles that don't protect their occupants, are made to move on city streets (quickly), on their home turf would lose to their 21st century counterparts in a race? Worse than that our Goblin rocket here would loose a race to a Moped! The Vespa Primavera's top sustainable speed is...59MPH.
So...someone help me wrap my brain around why the vehicle examples are not a Charlie Foxtrot?
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I agree and also don't understand this. A human can move 30ft a round in light armor but an enercycle moves 20ft??
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I think, clearly, the problem here is your view of junkcycles and enercycles.
Nothing says either of those is a 'crotch rocket'. All that's said about the Goblin Junkcycle is that it's goblin made and, like many of their devices, has a tendency to explode. The fact that it's also a pretty slow and awful mode of transportation should be unsurprising.
And the enercycle seems more like a vespa than a motorcycle, at least in function. And, given the name, seems likely to be electrically powered too. The fastest electrically powered scooters in real life go something like 32 mph.
The speed of all other vehicles is as you'd expect (more or less) and all that means is we lack a real motorcycle equivalent so far. Which, given that there are a grand total of 9 vehicles listed, isn't terribly surprising.
Since you're interested in reality, what is the stopping distance for the gobbo-cycle? 5ft? 10Ft?
I haven't actually looked.