Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28686446-20160630100236/@comment-28686446-20160630201510

Athanos wrote:

Finally, there is always the chance that SIU intends to (permanently) separate Baam from the current cast. It could be done very well, and it's clearly not something we're expecting when even your concern is expressed as "SIU writing himself into a corner" that assumes a corner instead of a boundary. Well said :) There are no dead ends only opportunities, or something along those lines right? :) And yeah I suppose SIU could separate them but I really don't want that :D

Rachellover69 wrote:

To the Urek part. No, you don't have to be stronger than him to climb faster. Almost all of the tests are against other Regulars. Therefore you only have to be stronger than the other Regulars in the same tests to climb about as fast. I can't imagine that there was any serious competition for Urek, and even if he was about 10 times as weak as we was when he climbed, I don't think that it would have slowed down his progress at all. Maybe he wouldn't have fought Arie Hon, but I don't think Urek is particularly proud of climbing the Tower in 50 years. My point wasn't really somebody needs to be as strong as Urek to climb that fast, but rather so far it looks like you don't need to be even close to his power level. We know Urek was the fastest one right? And average is 500 years or so, right? Well at this rate, much less Baam, but even Lessoo's team looks like they can do it. And they are really not that special. Now I hear you screaming how can be a team with two monstrous princesses, genius leader, and few regulars comparable to any regular from 10 families, ordinary? Well I imagine in thousands years of climbing inside tower, there had to be quite a few teams like this, yet no one got under 50 years. I would even speculate those super teams should be around like 100 years at best, otherwise Urek's record wouldn't be much of a feat. Lessoo's team is inside the tower for 10 years and they are already on 39th floor, that is way too fast.

Athanos wrote:

I suspect that one way out of this is simply to make the higher Floors considerably more time-consuming by whatever means available (e.g., longer wait for the tests, longer tests, more difficult tests, challenges to get to the tests, etc.) Something similar was said about floors 20 and above and yet everyone (important) is scaling one floor after another. Once again I will say, I only hope SIU is aware of that, and has some kind of a plan. In SIU we believe :)