Why are we comparing a ball of wadded paper to a warrior standing on a burning surface trading blows with an opponent? I think we can safely say the Warrior is not "crouched in a ball and covering as much as possible". And yet standing on a damaging elemental surface fighting = less elemental damage than walking even one step across it.
Please tell me you aren't this fucking stupid? Please? I refuse to believe that you could read what I wrote and be that fucking oblivious to the point.
If you are too stupid to figure it out, the "Crouched in a ball" aspect was merely to explain the concept. Seriously... I am at a loss how fucking idiotic people can be this day. Do you guys labor for breath? /boggle
My point was that I don't see how your physics lesson applies to the current gameplay discussion, except as an opportunity to state the obvious and get your name in the thread. I understand what you're talking about, but since we are clearly not clicking a
"curl up in a ball and protect yourself" button with our characters I don't see a legitimate purpose in even having that discussion.
In other words, your statement:
"It isn't perfect, but the idea that moving increasing your burn damage isn't unreasonable."..*is* unreasonable when you consider the fact that, unlike your wadded paper experiment, characters in the middle of a battle standing in battle-ready positions already have all their surface area exposed. So moving through a fire (instead of standing in a fire) should not cause them to take more damage by that reasoning. TL;DR: it was a silly, moot point not worth having a discussion about.
You seemed to just be looking for a way to disagree with my complaint, and (as expected from you) now the insults are flying. Typical Tanist!
