NEW World Map! Images Included!

So the new map is 1200 square km! thoughts? I called this about 1 month or so back but didn't think it would be this much bigger! Shout out to my fellow Ashes Pathfinders!

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Ludullu

Asgerr wrote: »

See, you're thinking about it too hard. I choose The Frostgrave Fells because I like mountains and winter XD

BUT BOTH HAVE THOSE!!@$!@4

Asgerr

NiKr wrote: »

Asgerr wrote: »

See, you're thinking about it too hard. I choose The Frostgrave Fells because I like mountains and winter XD

BUT BOTH HAVE THOSE!!@$!@4

Sujoma is basically just Iceland but with a Finnish name. Few mountains, sorta snowy. Less epic name.

Frostgrave Fells? Many mountains. Much cool. Such snow. Epic name. And you don't have to take a ship to everywhere.

-T0Mb-

Asgerr wrote: »

NiKr wrote: »

Asgerr wrote: »

See, you're thinking about it too hard. I choose The Frostgrave Fells because I like mountains and winter XD

BUT BOTH HAVE THOSE!!@$!@4

Sujoma is basically just Iceland but with a Finnish name. Few mountains, sorta snowy. Less epic name.

Frostgrave Fells? Many mountains. Much cool. Such snow. Epic name. And you don't have to take a ship to everywhere.

As a Finnish person I can say that Sujoma doesn't mean anything in Finnish but it resembles with Finland's Finnish name Suomi.

Morg7x7

I'm that one guy who planned on living in the tundra biome and now they drop a big blurry volcano on my ass...

Asgerr

-T0Mb- wrote: »

Asgerr wrote: »

NiKr wrote: »

Asgerr wrote: »

See, you're thinking about it too hard. I choose The Frostgrave Fells because I like mountains and winter XD

BUT BOTH HAVE THOSE!!@$!@4

Sujoma is basically just Iceland but with a Finnish name. Few mountains, sorta snowy. Less epic name.

Frostgrave Fells? Many mountains. Much cool. Such snow. Epic name. And you don't have to take a ship to everywhere.

As a Finnish person I can say that Sujoma doesn't mean anything in Finnish but it resembles with Finland's Finnish name Suomi.

Yeah that's why I correlated the two. Would have been to odd to name ti Suoma or Pohjola or something like that. Although we could have had some witch and her beautiful daughters as raid bosses lol

Alacrite

Why the map look like a four legged beast with wings fighting a bear with wings?

Dygz

-T0Mb- wrote: »

As a Finnish person I can say that Sujoma doesn't mean anything in Finnish but it resembles with Finland's Finnish name Suomi.

Didn’t sound Finnish to me, but… that’s not one of my languages…
😀

GrandHarfang

Vaknar wrote: »

I merged a couple of similar threads regarding the new map changes together to make discussions a bit smoother for folks!

I'm excited to see what y'all have to say about it! ^_^ Personally, I'm so excited!

Any chance we can get an HD picture of the new map?

Asgerr

Dygz wrote: »

-T0Mb- wrote: »

As a Finnish person I can say that Sujoma doesn't mean anything in Finnish but it resembles with Finland's Finnish name Suomi.

Didn’t sound Finnish to me, but… that’s not one of my languages…
😀

I'm just used to Finnish because a lot of the metal music I listen to is from there. Songs like Kunnes Varjot Saa, or Surunvarjo have a similar sound and consonation and letter usage. So maybe that was some inspiration for the sound of the name.

Dygz

Sounds Asian to me.

Goalid

Sigtyr wrote: »

Apparently continents will take 50 minutes to cross while mounted.

Personally I think that this is the perfect map size and I love this change. This world needs to feel large enough for "nations" and their capitals to develop, for trade between them to feel consequential, and for offensive movement against one another to be deliberate and decisive.

A lot of reasons I think this will benefit the game and I, as well as Intrepid I'm sure, can't wait to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

50 minutes to ride north to south on one of these continents, not even the time to cross the ocean east to west which is probably significantly more.

Asgerr

Goalid wrote: »

Sigtyr wrote: »

Apparently continents will take 50 minutes to cross while mounted.

Personally I think that this is the perfect map size and I love this change. This world needs to feel large enough for "nations" and their capitals to develop, for trade between them to feel consequential, and for offensive movement against one another to be deliberate and decisive.

A lot of reasons I think this will benefit the game and I, as well as Intrepid I'm sure, can't wait to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

50 minutes to ride north to south on one of these continents, not even the time to cross the ocean east to west which is probably significantly more.

From the easternmost point of the western continent, to the easternmost point of the western continent, it's likely to be 20 minutes at the most. From there proceed on land you've crossed the western continent in probably 20 minutes at most.

I still don't feel like it's that long to cross an entire MMO world, especially without loading screens in between areas to artificially inflate the time it takes.

BaSkA_9x2

From previous discussions with the old map size in mind, it became apparent that the map size would probably feel small, a bigger map is always better. I like the fact that now the continents are further apart, which makes ships a lot more important.

One worry I have, however, is that the larger the map, the more "meta" Scientific nodes and their Metropolis superpower become. I hope that the other node types' superpowers are on par with the fast and faster travel of Scientific nodes, or else there might not be enough motivation to level focus on anything other than those types of Nodes.

Veeshan

Alpha 2 be bottom half of left map, seeing they said earlier in stream the main 3 biome we will have are riverlands, dessert and forest with a bit of badlands so seem to be half of the left continent.

St_Nyack

NiKr wrote: »

Does anyone else feel like this is a bit too close to scope creep territory?

No it doesn't feel like scope creep
They are just making more room for what they have .
It's like taking a dungeon and making the rooms bigger and the halls longer because the first design felt cramped

mobtek

Verra is a globe with a 21 degree axial tilt

Azherae

mobtek wrote: »

Verra is a globe with a 21 degree axial tilt

I was actually discussing with my beloved whether it was retrograde.

Is the sun gonna rise in the West and set in the East in Verra in order to make the circulation cells make sense according to the map shown?

Meteorology/astrophysics nerds weigh in. Film at 11.

Veeshan

The lake in the middle of Elyrium (Right island) i think should be connected to the ocean via river that goes of to the east for trade boat access (Probaly only small trade boats) but the middle of that entire continent is quite far from any open ocean compared to the other islands/continents.
This would give the central biome and east of Frostthorn fell access to the ocean via river (A dangerous river to take a boat up but it there as an option)

mobtek

Here's the other way, more earth like

Azherae

mobtek wrote: »

Here's the other way, more earth like

Yeah but my immersion...

On the other hand, (in case anyone thought I was joking), the Sun and Moon rise in the west and set in the east in BDO and it drives me crazy.

I know why they did it, I think, but I'm actually kinda hoping Ashes doesn't. With this map though, particularly now that I've seen your models (thanks, they're perfect), and the fact that there was no day-night cycle in Alpha-1 to confirm it either way, this may very realistically be a thing again.

Stuck between 'being annoyed at navigation' and 'being annoyed at navigation the other way' won't be fun if this is seriously considered/intentional and they base the wind and currents on it for sailing.

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