World size

ArchivedUser

How big is the world how many continents do you think it should have?

ArchivedUser

As big as possible, but we don't have any news to that yet

i would like to see at least three different Continents. Or maybe 1 giant Continent, 2 medium size Continents and a bunch of smaller ones

ArchivedUser

Probbaly the same as classic wow a bit smaller i gues.

ArchivedUser

Steven said: Prreeeeeetty big

ArchivedUser

I would like to see a seperate continent for each set of races then the naval travel to go between them

ArchivedUser

The only thing I can show you about the world size is pretty much this picture from Node video 1
<img src="https://i.gyazo.com/57863fe783ae8959b3da0e94c143431c.jpg" alt="" />

But that's all we have seen when it comes to the map But steven did say it will be pretty big!


Hope this helps :)

ArchivedUser

That is cool thank you i would love to see a whole map though gives me an idea of where i want tostart

ArchivedUser

Well if we mark a very very large assumption and make an ass out of u and me....
...those individual squares could be metropolis tile boundaries.
I think they said the metropolis was 0.5km or 5km across.
So they could be 1km or 10km squares ??!?!?! maybe.....really stretching the realms of speculation though.

It would make sense for the square area to be consistent though, if you want balancing of node progress XP.

ArchivedUser

True rune relic but having a better idea of map size would be helpful especially when it comes down to those metropolitan cities you don't want them all clustered in 1 set of nodes and the rest of the map be sparce towns and villages in my opinion spreading them over a huge map with towns and villages in between would make for better game play and if we have to go over seas for some metropolitan cities that would also make for fun times to

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The world needs to be large, but it also needs to be scaled to the number of players inhabiting to have the right balance and feel active where in needs to be but still have remote/desolate areas where it needs also.

As the actual final active player base is only an estimate, would it make sense to scale the release of certain Zones of Influence so that there balance achieved and perhaps future offerings with new lands at a later date?

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@Artemis40 I believe intrepid studios also said Depending on your race you pick you will spawn at a certain place!

Their are 8 races total 2, Humans , Elfs, Orcs , Dwarves
and If my memory serves me right I believe he said there is 8 Gate or Portals where you character comes out of!

I agree I would want to see the whole map as well but its still in pre - alpha unfortunately

@Rune_Relic I can see that the bigger town you have the more space and land you will gain!

@AkaBear
So kinda like What WOW did new expansion created new lands to go to. I can see that, but Intrepid studios already stated they plan on having a limit on server so it doesn't feel Crowed etc... what that limit is no idea

ArchivedUser

<blockquote><div class="d4p-bbp-quote-title"><a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/world-size-2/#post-28606">AkaBear wrote:</a></div>The world needs to be large, but it also needs to be scaled to the number of players inhabiting to have the right balance and feel active where in needs to be but still have remote/desolate areas where it needs also.

As the actual final active player base is only an estimate, would it make sense to scale the release of certain Zones of Influence so that there balance achieved and perhaps future offerings with new lands at a later date?

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So kinda like What WOW did new expansion created new lands to go to. I can see that, but Intrepid studios already stated they plan on having a limit on server so it doesn't feel Crowed etc... what that limit is no idea

ArchivedUser

I think they mentioned each race has an exclusive starting area, I hate MMO's that spawn all races in the same area, it makes making alts so boring having to run the same quest line again.

ArchivedUser

I think this game needs to be the largest for all MMORPG"s , even more than the most recent ESO. I say this because of the Node system obviously, anything smaller would kill the game. If the nodes are too close to each other, even without fast travel it would be counter productive by having a small world.

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@Iscoed1815 I agree it feels like your just going to drive your self insane!!!!!!!

@Valerian Pretty sure its going to be big :P also if the population dies out they will bring servers together!
to keep the population big!

Hope this helps!

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JCTruper I do wonder how they will mange a "server merge", given the fact that they hope all servers will be different or at least not on the same progression path/level. I mean you'd be pretty annoyed if you'd worked your ass of for a year to progress a node, a merge happens and you find that node either undeveloped or in control of someone else.

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I would like them to make the world as large as is feasibly possible. It depends on how many nodes exist in the world and how they are activated or deactivated. I when a node advances to the village level it deactivates the closest nodes around it and expands into their zone of influence, then all those nodes become part of that first node all actions in all those nodes are taken over by the first node. If the expansion continues ZOI would extend farther and farther out from the first node eventually reaching metropolis level. So say there can only be 5 Metropoli in the world would those 5 metropoli cover the entire surface of the world in their ZOIs or would there be gaps. IS can also add more land to the world at any time and add the ability for more metropoli.

To begin with i would like to see the world be about the size of Tamriel in ESO. From there they can add the discovery of further continents and islands.

As far as server merges go they wont be merging them unless the population has dropped to a critically low stand point .so i think the Players on those servers would happily take the hit to have a viable server again if that becomes necessary.

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@Iscoed1815 Yeah I agree I don't believe that will happen just saying it were to happen they can take that step I rather give up somethings then be alone on a dead server would you?

I also believe they wont have like 50 servers so I think were good :P