Discussion: The World

[Poseptune]

I am all for making this just one major continent among others on the planet. After crunching the numbers below I'm starting to like the bigger Empire. It would take longer for supplies and soldiers to get to the main force.

[spoiler= At 4700 mi across the map]

That would make 1 inch = 235 miles

Area : 1974293.75 sq miles A little less than the Roman empire.

Tavel times (walking):
Widest point ~ 67 days
Tallest point ~ 54 days

Tavel times (horse):
Widest point ~ 34 days
Tallest point ~ 27 days

Tavel times (cart or wagon):
Widest point ~ 95 days
Tallest point ~ 80 days

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[spoiler= At 4000 mi across the map]

That would make 1 inch = 200 miles

Area : 1,430,000 sq miles

Tavel times (walking):
Widest point ~ 54 days
Tallest point ~ 45 days

Tavel times (horse):
Widest point ~ 27 days
Tallest point ~ 23 days

Tavel times (cart or wagon):
Widest point ~ 81 days
Tallest point ~ 69 days

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[spoiler= At 2000 mi across the map]

That would make 1 inch = 100 miles

Area : 357,500 sq miles A little larger than Texas

Tavel times (walking):
Widest point ~ 27 days
Tallest point ~ 23 days

Tavel times (horse):
Widest point ~ 14 days
Tallest point ~ 12 days

Tavel times (cart or wagon):
Widest point ~ 41 days
Tallest point ~ 34 days

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Those days traveling are straight lines across the widest and tallest points.

As for why the Empire hasn't conquered 2, 3, 4, and 5 yet there are many possible reasons:
1) Deserts divide the Empire from those regions.
2) The Empires fleet was in the northern sea, so the Emperor wants to claim the coastal regions up north first.
3) ... uuhhhh look over there *runs away*

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Turin,
Yeah, I guess that was kinda confusing.  What I'm arguing for is making the empire larger or keeping it the same size, but in either case, making it take up less space in the total world.  Does that make sense?  I'm not really much of a formal speaker :)

[Poseptune]

Here you go Ishy.

[spoiler=THE WORLD!] [/spoiler]

Or at least the northern hemisphere.


New map with three new regions and corrected for mountain cutting off other regions

[spoiler=Map] [/spoiler]

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Actually, that looks like it could be the entire world, both south and north hemisphere

[Poseptune]

Ok so how big do we want our planet?

Planet (circumference) = scale written as in:mi for convience
Pluto (4,494 mi) ~ 1:112
Mecury (9,525 mi) ~ 1:238
Mars (13,263 mi) ~ 1:332
----------------------------------------------- Anything beyond this point might be too big.
Venus/Earth (23,627 mi/ 24,901 mi) 1:600
Neptune (96,683 mi) 1:2417
Uranus (99,787 mi) 1:2495
Saturn (235,298 mi) 1:5882
Jupiter (279,118 mi) 1:6978


I'm a little partial to a planet somewhere between Mercury and Mars. Possibly closer to Mercury.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

I like Mercury size as well.

[Ravenspath]

This isn't a scale question (though I like mercury size as well), but rather a temperature zone question. Are we going to define zones for various temperature bands or are we waiting for scale to do that?

[limetom]

I like the Mercury size.  I agree with Ishy; that map is probably a good representation of the world, and the older map is good for one continent.

If we let the scale define the temperature bands, we should get a good range of them, so I think we should go that way.

Yes, this does mean I'm getting involved finally. :)

[Poseptune]

Welcome aboard limetom :)


So far that is 4 for Mercury size planet (1:230) and 2 for Pluto size (this is the Empire the size of Texas) (1:100).

Didn't think of the temperature zones. I added an equator to the world map so that figuring out the temperature zones. It may also be easier when we have the scale down.

[spoiler=World with equator] [/spoiler]

[beejazz]

I am wierded out by the flattish stuff around the equator and at the top left of the landmass. I'm not sure why.

Count me in for Pluto.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Yeah, the map was made originally off a fractal program that accounted for sphericals, so that's why parts look kinda funky.  Speaking of which, we may want to redraw a flat version to make it easier to set up borders and such.

Looks like the empire is going to be sub-tropical to moderately temperate (From South to North).  Lookin good so far.

[Poseptune]

Like Ishmayl said they are flat because the main continent that we are using was the entire planet from a fractal generator. The other landmasses were also from the same generator I just took them from three different maps I was working on. :)

So far
4 Mercury size
3 Pluto.

[Wensleydale]

I'm in with Mercury.

[MittenNinja]

i'll cast my vote for mercury

[Poseptune]

I'm in with Mercury.

I had you down as one of the votes for Pluto (Texas size Empire) from one of your previous post.

So the new numbers are

6 Mercury
2 Pluto.