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This thread has gotten long and I'm admittedly missing a lot of it now, I'm positive I'm probably just repeating what people have already said several times in the thread, but as a miqo'te player, I always accepted that Tiergan at his physical peak would not ever be as powerful as elezens, highlander, roegadyn at their physical peak. They're simply much bigger and if bulked up to their apex, they could just have way more mass than he ever could achieve.
By the same token, I always subconsciously felt that a lala at their physical peak -- if we ignore every factor like agility/intellect/etc and just focus entirely on strength -- wouldn't be as powerful as certain midders, highlanders, roes, and elezens at their physical peak. Especially roegadyn. The idea that a lala could be equally as powerful as all the other races in terms of raw strength alone, kind of admittedly makes things a little boring. Tiergan being smaller and less physically imposing makes combat much more interesting when I RP him facing off against someone bigger and heavier.
THAT SAID, not every single opponent we face in RP is at their absolute max physical prime. Like Bumo said, you can have a mix-up of strength levels in fights and this could very easily explain something like the very phyiscally powerful lala-miner twins that were capable of picking up and tossing out 'weak' or 'average' midders on their arses. It would also explain the Pugalist lalas (coupled with other factors like their speed/chakra/etc), and all the lala guards.
It would stand to reason that lala-guards would be training and working out enough to have the strength necessary to do their job and anyone they simply can't out-muscle, they out-speed.
By the same token, I always subconsciously felt that a lala at their physical peak -- if we ignore every factor like agility/intellect/etc and just focus entirely on strength -- wouldn't be as powerful as certain midders, highlanders, roes, and elezens at their physical peak. Especially roegadyn. The idea that a lala could be equally as powerful as all the other races in terms of raw strength alone, kind of admittedly makes things a little boring. Tiergan being smaller and less physically imposing makes combat much more interesting when I RP him facing off against someone bigger and heavier.
THAT SAID, not every single opponent we face in RP is at their absolute max physical prime. Like Bumo said, you can have a mix-up of strength levels in fights and this could very easily explain something like the very phyiscally powerful lala-miner twins that were capable of picking up and tossing out 'weak' or 'average' midders on their arses. It would also explain the Pugalist lalas (coupled with other factors like their speed/chakra/etc), and all the lala guards.
It would stand to reason that lala-guards would be training and working out enough to have the strength necessary to do their job and anyone they simply can't out-muscle, they out-speed.