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Message: <blockquote data-quote="System Ufera" data-source="post: 6227514" data-attributes="member: 6671268">I'm not going to say you're wrong, but rather, that you're addressing the wrong thing. I wasn't talking about the temperature requirements for hypo- or hyperthermia to merely happen. I was talking about said requirements for the symptoms of either to take effect instantly for the purposes of a battle. I wasn't entirely sure how to word what I had said in such a way that makes this clear, though, so I'll try again:What I'm assuming, and I admit that this is no more than an assumption and would thus appreciate being corrected if I'm wrong, is that a greater change in temperature would cause the symptoms to take effect faster, and given that, mathematically, the greater the temperature change, the closer the symptoms become to occurring instantly for the purposes of battle. I, personally, visualize this on a Cartesian graph, where the x axis would be the amount of temperature change required to have the symptoms occur in a given amount of time, represented by y; the function, I'd imagine, would look similar to x = 1 / y^2 , thus meaning that the closer one variable gets to zero, the closer the other gets to infinity. At some point before that, though, we'd accept a certain amount of time as being "low enough" (and thus a certain amount of change in temperature as being "high enough") for our purposes. But, I would further admittedly assume, that point would involve such a great change in temperature that burning (or the direct-damage equivalent for coldness) would occur at or before the point we reach anyway.And, once again, I must maintain my fallibility and my lack of actual knowledge. Sure, it may or may not seem more than necessary, but recently, on another website's forum, I ended up causing quite a stir when, despite having been just as insistent regarding my inexperience, I somehow gave the impression that I thought I was an infallible expert. I just want to make sure that I don't somehow make the same impression here.</blockquote>

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