Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26167440-20160111225919/@comment-679780-20160123044716

Sonicisawesome2448 wrote: Wait so are rings used as currency or used for health or use to fuel Super forms. Many games have shops that use rings as currency. Sonic Generations is a good example that shows gold rings as a form of international currency across the world.

I do not know if gold rings have healing properties but as for how they're used, I might as well explain my theory of why gold rings are persistant in Sonic's world.

I believe that the Chaos Emeralds produce an infinite ammouunt of chaos energy while gold rings are able to retain a small portion of chaos energy. It is a fact that gold is diamagentic, that means it doesn't attract but repels magnets and diamagnetic materials are known for levitation. I believe gold rings found in the zones and stages float and spin because they are charged with a small ammount of chaos energy that cause the diamagnetic properties in gold to be so powerful that they levitate from the very earths magnetism. (I did theorize that rings spin the opposite way on the other side of the earth due to Coriolis effect but Sonic Unleashed disprooves my theory.

When Sonic collects a single gold ring, the energy of that ring is shared with Sonic, thus nulling it's levitation to allow for easy carrying. (As for where Sonic puts it, I believe he utilizes a sort of hammerspace like Amy does with her hammer. Inventory management isn't exactly important other than the fact Sonic is capable of carrying hundreds of rings on himself.) When Sonic is attacked, the energy is disperse and the rings scatter. The rings are effected by gravity because most of the chaos energy within them have dispersed and are at a weakened stated. They can still be collected but the rings that are missed will vanish. All this time I simply believed the rings simply " got lost" and 16-bit consoles back then had trouble displaying this. But really I believe the vanishing rings are literally vanishing and have gone to the special stages.

So every time you get a hit and loose all your rings, those rings you can't pick up go to the Special stages just like the chaos Emeralds, they will be recharged and scattered all across other stage and zones just like the Chaos Emeralds again.

This can make sense on how Sonic has collected many rings, in yet there is still plenty more out there. Also unlike Classic to Modern Sonic or Emerald to Brilliant-cut Chaos Emeralds, the gold rings appearances in general has never changed so chances are the same rings you've collected and lost since the Classic era of Sonic games have gone to Special stages, re-energized and returned to later zones over and over again to Modern era Sonic games and so on. There is definately hundreds, thousands, perhaps billions of rings across Sonic's world but definately not infinite and if my theory is right, Sonic may have collected the same rings many times and neither he nor the player would have noticed due to how identical they all look.

As for how the gold rings relate to super forms, well super forms are triggered by the Chaos Emeralds but still need a steady flow of energy which is from the rings. Super Sonic can't loose the rings from damage, but the energy spent will cause the rings to vanish by the second in his hammerspace inventory. So whenever Sonic looses rings from damage or spends them in his Super Sonic forms, those lost/spent rings line the Special Stages to be recharged and go back to Earth somewhere later.

Sonicisawesome2448 wrote: So would you say the Chaos Emeralds get instable when Super Sonic uses them After excessive use, yes.

The Chaos Emeralds powers are infinite and how much power from the emerald depends on the will of the beholder. These gems are like a conduit to chaos energy. But also they're like batteries of chaos energy as they have - and + polarization as explained in Sonic Adventure. Games have shown the Chaos Emeralds powers can be changed, such as in Sonic Adventure when Chaos stole the negative power of the emeralds or Sonic Unleashed when the power was robbed from the emeralds entirely. So the emeralds powers are infinite but the stability of that power can be changed.

When Super Sonic uses them the Chaos Emeralds still give off power but over time become instable due to excessive use. They can still be used to trigger Super Sonic though but usually somewhen after you're done with replaying as Super Sonic or after the games story is finished, the Chaos Emeralds will eventually warp back to the Warp of Confusion to create special stages to recharge in. I say "after the game" because this isn't actually shown and just a theory of mine. Either that or playable Super Sonic in replayed zones is purely for gameplay and the Chaos Emeralds go after the Super Sonic climax of the games story.

But thats just a theory.