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[Cannonfodder]

I am not 100% sure on the physics but I guess the projectile stays in the barrel longer and the fact you have more propellant behind the projectile that can expand VS a cylinder in a traditional AEG might be the case. 

You're spot on about gas guns. I guess the effect isn't as obvious as muzzle energies are lower in full auto AEGs, rather than the method the bb is fired. After all the only difference between a spring powered bolt action and AEG is that one is manually cycled and the other uses gears and a motor

 

[Rogerborg]

I do actually get the pragmatic argument about most AEGs vs most bolties, but the problem that you're trying to catch is edge-case exceptions.

As always, I'd argue that the only thing that actually tests what energy guns are producing in game is chronoing them in game, with the weight that they're using.

If you don't test reality, then you're just dabbling in various flavours of fantasy and hypotheticals.

 

[Sewdhull]

You're spot on about gas guns. I guess the effect isn't as obvious as muzzle energies are lower in full auto AEGs, rather than the method the bb is fired. After all the only difference between a spring powered bolt action and AEG is that one is manually cycled and the other uses gears and a motor

This is true altho any gun with an excess of energy in the spring will create creep with heavier bbs, just because the extra time the bb spends in the barrel soaks up the extra energy. DMRs and BASRs have typically longer barrels and larger effective cylinders, stronger springs too, but for creep its just the excess energy that matters and the time to utilise it.