Aberrant RPG - Question about Speed and Enhanced Move/Hypermove

[PowerStar]

If I have a Dex of 5 and Mega-Dex of 3, Enhanced Movement Enhancement, as well as Hypermovement (Running)1,do I have a Run of (Dex 5+Mega-Dex 3=) 8 + 12 [X 10 for Enhanced Move + Hypermove 1] = (20 X 10) 200? Or is it like this Run = (Dex 5 + Mega-Dex 3 = 8 [X 10 (Enhanced + Hypermove 1) = 80 ] + 12 (Base) = 92 Meters? Is it some other way? ::confused I'm not sure how this works, as I have always played a Flyer. ::halo Thanks for any and all clarifications.

::malrules

[Alex Green]

Apply Enhanced Movement Last.

Your Dex for movement is 8 (5+3).

Sprint is 20 + 3 x Dex meters.

Hypermove makes that 20 + 9 x Dex

Or 20+9*8 => 92 meters.

With Enhanced Movement we multiply that times by 1+M-Dex, or 4.

Your "Sprint" movement rate is 368 meters.

Out of combat you just have basic hypermove, or 500 km per hour

(And multiple lines make your post more readable).

[Nullifier]

Um. I was under the impression that Enhanced Movement affected Hypermovement speed both in and out of combat. You can turn it on for a whole scene, after all, and it does say to apply the multipler after determining the character's movement rate with Hypermovement. So a character with Med-Dexterity 3, Hypermovement 1, and Enhanced Movement with both EM and HM activated, the charachter would move at 2000kph. Unless I'm missing something?

[Alex Green]

Only that it doesn't make sense.

We've had discussions about this here before. In a nutshell the problem is an enhancement shouldn't be far more powerful than a power.

The above character is a good example. If EM applies to Hypermove out of combat then he effectively has 4 dots in hypermove for out of combat movement. EM works on lots of other types of movement as well, if he gets a dot in hyper-swimming then he has 4 dots in it. Ditto hyperflight (or even generic flight). Pretty good for 5 experience points, and a couple of orders of magnitude more effective than all the other Dex enhancements.

If he drops 5 more experience for another dot of hypermove he then effectively has 8 dots in hypermove. Meaning that he easily passes someone with *only* 5 dots in hypermove (meaning our specialist in movement had better get a Q8 just to keep up).

Then you have the problems with the damage his 'wake' leaves with his effective 8 dots.

All these problems (and others, like the minuses to hit) go away if EM only works in combat.