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Topic: "Natural" Island Spread

Right now the islands seem WAY to symmetrical and close together to give anyone any sort of semblance of an actual world.  I think there needs to be some way to view these islands in their "natural" state, likely being many times as far away from eachother than they are now, and not in a perfect circular form.  Maybe zooming out more on the map screen makes the islands 'drift' apart to their natural positions, and zooming in moves them close to eachother as they are now for easy viewing and navigation.

Just something to improve immersion and make the world a bit more believable.  I think most people would struggle to believe that this many islands are clumped this close together in a perfect circle big_smile

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Re: "Natural" Island Spread

Agree! And they are way to similar in size as well. Realism or FAIL.

3 Reply by RG_Sha (edited by RG_Sha 2011-06-27 15:36:31)

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Re: "Natural" Island Spread

What you see is only what has been secured from the native inhabitants thus far. (IE this is so the devs can add more as the need for new lands occur .. rather over crowding occurs and places for the expansions to come are applied).  you are only seeing a small part of this massive world! (i hope big_smile )

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Re: "Natural" Island Spread

What Neoxx is referring to is that the in game map is just maybe just a representation of the Islands and the TP relations to each other, not their true locations on the world map.

It would explain why they are all about the same size, as this a robot society, they built functionality on the Islands according to the sq footage. A very computational and rational use of space.

However, these Islands are not actually arranged in a nice little geometric pattern, the map would be really difficult to understand if the true layout were shown. They are most likely spread across the globe and part of still yet unBroken TP paths of archapelligo chains, as well as Continents; which we don't want to go to yet as we would easily be overwhelmed.

The trouble is that we haven't broken into their Satellite systems yet, to get an overview of the planet. Nor have we any accurate maps from the archives, just what we have survayed.

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Re: "Natural" Island Spread

if they dont add a island that has all three current climatic zones in one, and call it "crossroads" in the middle between the three starter island - then im really ok with the current layout wink

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Re: "Natural" Island Spread

Big +1, especially about different sizes. Diversity pretty please.