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NEW World Map! Images Included!
Simurgh
Member, Phoenix Initiative, Avatar of the Phoenix, Kickstarter
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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.
If I can basically cross my continent in less than an hour, and going from node to node takes maybe 10 minutes....
That's not too long for a caravan pvp encounter to happen, unless the caravan moves massively slower than walking.
Crossing the sea from one continent to the other seems like it'll take maybe 20 minutes? Autoflagging won't really do much if you get in and out of there before people can realize you're there and can group to gank you.
I'm excited to see what y'all have to say about it! ^_^ Personally, I'm so excited!
I was thinking you could cross it by boat in 5 mins. If we are talking about the nw island to the se island then 20 mins seems more like a possibility.
Yeah not much threat to you in a five minutes crossing from the closest points of the 2 major continents.
Does anyone else feel like this is a bit too close to scope creep territory?
It's difficult to say, but in regards to what the world is like I think it's ok as that's something they have to get right from the start. Adding more things than necessary into that world is closer to scope creep. For all we know some of the extra land areas may be more spacious and didn't slow things down too much.
No, this isn't a new feature and the whole reason for the change is to spread things out more so it shouldn't come with more content. They also mentioned that they are reducing the number of nodes which means less work.
I think it's silly to try to scream scope creep for a change. They will learn stuff as the develop and need to be able to adjust.
There's probably a lot more details, but it's hard to pick things out without a higher resolution image. Looking forward to seeing how it plays during alpha 2.
Hi @Vaknar , is it possible to get a highres image for this map where we can really zoom in ?
Edit: put the old map on here as it's life on the Wiki may be short.
See, you're thinking about it too hard. I choose The Frostgrave Fells because I like mountains and winter XD
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
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Any chance we can get an HD picture of the new map?
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.