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Old 09-16-2019, 12:45 PM   #11
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As others have pointed out a jump that gives you more than a few inches of clearance is pretty cinematic. Big jumps that aren't perfectly choreographed result is massive undercarriage damage even when done perfectly and likely send the car flipping end over end when they fail.

That said, if you jump over something sometimes that's enough. Maybe your character sees a vehicle carrier with it's ramp down on the side of the dead end street and accelerates to cinematiclaly jump over a wall. The handling roll doesn't turn the car into a fireball but it drifts to a grinding stop with it's engine block dragging on the ground and two of it's wheels at uncomfortable angles, but everyone is alive, you're on the other side of the wall and away from the bad guys.
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Old 09-16-2019, 06:51 PM   #12
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As others have pointed out a jump that gives you more than a few inches of clearance is pretty cinematic. Big jumps that aren't perfectly choreographed result is massive undercarriage damage even when done perfectly and likely send the car flipping end over end when they fail.

That said, if you jump over something sometimes that's enough. Maybe your character sees a vehicle carrier with it's ramp down on the side of the dead end street and accelerates to cinematiclaly jump over a wall. The handling roll doesn't turn the car into a fireball but it drifts to a grinding stop with it's engine block dragging on the ground and two of it's wheels at uncomfortable angles, but everyone is alive, you're on the other side of the wall and away from the bad guys.
... unless they also jump the wall, of course, or they take a route around the area that gets them to you before you can run away (if you're all healthy enough to run). Mind you, they could jump the wall and land badly.

Of course, if the wall you jumped was the Berlin Wall, the East German guards can't go after you, and you'll have a hell of a story to tell in the biergarten later (and the car you wrecked was probably borrowed from someone in East Berlin, anyway).
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Old 09-18-2019, 03:33 AM   #13
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Of course, if the wall you jumped was the Berlin Wall, the East German guards can't go after you, and you'll have a hell of a story to tell in the biergarten later (and the car you wrecked was probably borrowed from someone in East Berlin, anyway).
Would make a great end or end of arc in a game.
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Old 09-18-2019, 07:18 AM   #14
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Now I’m wondering what it would take to make a car that can survive large jumps (by which I mean around 6 feet).
Something like those specialist rally dune buggies with the suspension units also 6 feet tall?
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Old 09-18-2019, 10:09 AM   #15
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Now I’m wondering what it would take to make a car that can survive large jumps (by which I mean around 6 feet).
The max G forces experienced on landing is equal to the fall height / suspension flex * (fudge factor for the shocks, generally 1-2). You'll probably want a combination of a heavier than normal frame, heavy shocks, and a very high base ground clearance.
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Old 09-18-2019, 10:12 AM   #16
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Every time I see this thread I read the title as "Cat jumps over obstacle".
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