Verra Map Analysis

This is based on the total world size (including water) of 480km². The ocean size, land size and inland water sizes are calculated by counting pixels and multiplying the total by the ratio of that type.

The numbers are approximate and speculative.

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GrinningJack

I like it.

Lex

After discussing with @Jahlon we've come up with an estimate of the grid size of the map.

Map is 34 x 24 squares.
If the total area is 480km² then each square works out to be around 0.77 x 0.77km = 0.588km².
This is easily checked: 480 = 0.588 x 34 x 24

Comparison with BR maps

The original BR map is 2.5 x 2.5 = 6.25km²
Therefore the BR map is approximately 10.63 map squares in area.
Check: 10.63 x 0.588 = 6.25

The new BR map is 1/5 the size of the original, so around 1.25km²
Therefore the new BR map is approx 2.12 map squares in area.
Check: 2.12 x 0.588 = 1.25

syl

Looking good

! How did you color the map? Did you do it by hand? And I'm assuming you used an application to count the green and blue pixels to calculate its surface, right?

Anyway, back to the analysis and speculation. I'm quite liking the diversity of biomes Intrepid has put in and I'm very much intrigued by the arctic biome in the east. It's quite mysterious how that came to be there. I'm hoping to find out in the near future if there's more to it than just cosmetic purposes.

Lex

syl wrote: »

Looking good ! How did you color the map? Did you do it by hand? And I'm assuming you used an application to count the green and blue pixels to calculate its surface, right?

I used photoshop to color and count the pixels.

syl

Haha ok. I wouldn't have thought of counting pixels with Photoshop. You learn something every day.

Whitecloak

What about areas that lead into other areas like the tunnels into the Tulnar caverns or the dungeon paths that split into multiple areas and forks that either go underground or into caves or mountains that are not seen on the above-ground map? Are those counted in the 480km^2 too?

Damokles

Whitecloak wrote: »

What about areas that lead into other areas like the tunnels into the Tulnar caverns or the dungeon paths that split into multiple areas and forks that either go underground or into caves or mountains that are not seen on the above-ground map? Are those counted in the 480km^2 too?

Underground is an additional 100km i believe.

Whitecloak

Don't forget inside buildings / freeholds, castles. Those, while not instanced, do not reflect the proportional km^2 of the size of the building seen outside / above-ground vs. inside once you enter. It is slightly skewed.

Jahlon

Whitecloak wrote: »

Don't forget inside buildings / freeholds, castles. Those, while not instanced, do not reflect the proportional km^2 of the size of the building seen outside / above-ground vs. inside once you enter. It is slightly skewed.

Actually with it not being instanced what you see is what you get.

You can't have a non-instanced building sitting on a 500 square foot plot take up more than 500 square feet. It just doesn't work that way.

Whitecloak

What about upstairs?

Shaze

Great Work Lex and Jahlon! Love the numbers.

Jahlon

Whitecloak wrote: »

What about upstairs?

The 480 km² doesn't take into account when you have buildings with 12 floors.

Whitecloak

What about tunnels that slope downwards?

Magic Man

Yes, yes the map is big 😅 @Whitecloak Here's something Jahlon did to put it into scale (although not 100% accurate)

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Each square you see here is as big as the old BR map which is shown below:

Azryil

Amazing Job

nibiru97

Lex wrote: »

After discussing with @Jahlon we've come up with an estimate of the grid size of the map.

Map is 34 x 24 squares.
If the total area is 480km² then each square works out to be around 0.77 x 0.77km = 0.588km².
This is easily checked: 480 = 0.588 x 34 x 24

Comparison with BR maps

The original BR map is 2.5 x 2.5 = 6.25km²
Therefore the BR map is approximately 10.63 map squares in area.
Check: 10.63 x 0.588 = 6.25

The new BR map is 1/5 the size of the original, so around 1.25km²
Therefore the new BR map is approx 2.12 map squares in area.
Check: 2.12 x 0.588 = 1.25

Did Steven recently say that the ocean is part of the total? Because he did say that the BR map was equal to 4.5 squares on the mmo map, and that was the most recent statement from him I've heard. Just curious because there are contradicting statements out there.

Ravudha

nibiru97 wrote: »

Did Steven recently say that the ocean is part of the total?.

Copied from an earlier post on the map size - Steven's quotes in references 8,9 on the wiki: https://ashesofcreation.wiki/World_map

I read the quote to mean 'all' land and water (excluding the under realm).

Jahlon

Yes, he said land and water was about 480 km²

nibiru97

K, I'll just disregard his other comment then.

Cambiguous

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