World Size Too Big?

The world size might be too big, let me explain.

As I have grown older I have had less and less time to be able to dedicate to playing a game. And I am afraid the map size has become too large for people who can't dedicate a TON of time to play per session.

For example, Steven has mentioned it taking about an hour to traverse from one end of a continent to another. So, if I am in the center of a continent it would probably take about 30 minutes to get to any of the edges. Unless there is teleporting (which I am not advocating for), I could potentially be spending 1/4 or 1/2 of my play session just traversing the world to get to the content I ACTUALLY want to do. If I want to hop in and go raiding with some of my buddies on another continent, I should be able to get there in a reasonable amount of time.

What I'd like to see is a sort of shared airship system that goes from one metropolis to another where I could just hop on that ship to more easily go to another area.
You could make this airship make a full cycle around every 10 minutes. This won't trivialize ground content because this ship only goes between metropolises. Trading routes and such obviously should not be able to utilize this method of travel.

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Mag7spy

Sapiverenus wrote: »

Mag7spy wrote: »

Neurath wrote: »

No global chat will make zergs easier. Takes longer for news to travel.

This is wrong, you will simply let mega guilds have a huge advantage on the server and crush you without you being able to ask anyone for help. Or use the politics on the server to your advantage and have enemy guilds against them back you up.

If i have a mega guild at the start of the game i dont want people using global chat. Easy win on the server.

Easy win. When there are several 'mega guilds' and people can start their own or join up with one after the first bitter.

You're fuckin' scared!

You're scared that you'll piss people off and they'll crush your Guild out of spite for months! LMAO

You dont understand anything about pvp or large guilds. You are naïve and never been in one or in a position to run one.

Asgerr

If you only have 2 hours per day to play, there is no way to be a raider.

Thus that entire portion of the game is out of reach to you. You then must focus on different things, such as developing your Node, your artisan skills and doing what dungeons and PvP are available in your area.

Remember that it basically takes all of 5 minutes to go from one Node to another. So you can essentially do content for multiple Nodes in your area within your allotted time.

If you absolutely must go all the way across the world, the process of going there should be a part of the adventure. You can kill mobs on the way, escort caravans from one Node to the other, all as an itinerary of things to do on the way.

Then once you're at your destination, if you've no time to do the content there, log out and do it the next day.

Alternatively, join a family in game and have them family summon you if they're already there with more time to play than you have.

Mag7spy

Asgerr wrote: »

If you only have 2 hours per day to play, there is no way to be a raider.

Thus that entire portion of the game is out of reach to you. You then must focus on different things, such as developing your Node, your artisan skills and doing what dungeons and PvP are available in your area.

Remember that it basically takes all of 5 minutes to go from one Node to another. So you can essentially do content for multiple Nodes in your area within your allotted time.

If you absolutely must go all the way across the world, the process of going there should be a part of the adventure. You can kill mobs on the way, escort caravans from one Node to the other, all as an itinerary of things to do on the way.

Then once you're at your destination, if you've no time to do the content there, log out and do it the next day.

Alternatively, join a family in game and have them family summon you if they're already there with more time to play than you have.

This pretty much, that is why i questioned why they are running from one side to the other and what content they are doing. If they are trying to argue about running back and forth constantly id say they are prob playing the game wrong or have the wrong understanding.

Aerlana

BaSkA13 wrote: »

Map size needs to be directly proportional to server size/cap, i.e. how many players a server can hold simultaneously.

This is also what i think
Travel time can be affected by size but also shape... a "line" continent will make long travel, while a circle continent will make travel time slightly less.
The continents shape is middle between those 2 extremes. But it is, in the end, i think mainly a design choice.

The density of player is a big thing... and not so easy to predict for us.
nodes themselves will be more crowded : people speaking, afk, flexing etc. While the "savage" territory, where the PvE activity is will be under the average population density. raids area will sometime also have over the high density. And siege will be moment of heavy high density.
each time there is a "heavy density " event, it will lower the density of the "savage world" for part of the world...

So in simple... yes real question is "population density" but i have personally hard time to see if it will be good or no...
Also, we know about increase size map. but maybe they will try to improve server population ?

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