anyone wonder if the world map might not be laid out accurately?
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:37 pm
the Prime Roots look pretty clearly like they are underground, despite not being able to see the ceiling, there are rare spots where a hole shines light through, but otherwise the area above you is always black.
does anyone think the different lands might not actually be laid out the way the map shows them? perhaps all four lands completely cover the area on the map where the PR areas are. Otherwise there's huge amounts of above-ground land that's unexplored, right in the middle of explored lands.
In the beginning when I was reading the lore and looking at the maps, I thought the Lands of Umbra (the long thin stretch of PR) was the river running beside the Verdant Heights / forest from Aeden Aqueous / lake up to the Burning Desert, to supply the Fyros with water. I don't think it's anywhere near that straight-forward any more though.
I sorta wonder if the desert isn't rotated 45 degrees one way, and the jungle rotated 45 degrees another way... there's an area off the north of the jungle map that looks similar to the nexus minor, and an area of green surrounding the desert town of Thesos in the south-east that almost looks like the cliffs of the forest
the way the sky moves might give us a clue as to whether or not even some lands are rotated, not merely just shifted. (whether intentionally designed that way or not, so it could be misleading if the lands are meant to be rotated but the moon and sun travel across the sky as if they were aligned the way the map shows)
It's really hard to explain impassible terrain... homins are smart enough to build ladders. they should be able to scale any cliff given time and lack of aggro. It's too bad there's no way to make anything in this game that could be gradually discovered. as soon as one person finds it, everyone rushes there and soon it is no longer new and there is the desire for more.
does anyone think the different lands might not actually be laid out the way the map shows them? perhaps all four lands completely cover the area on the map where the PR areas are. Otherwise there's huge amounts of above-ground land that's unexplored, right in the middle of explored lands.
In the beginning when I was reading the lore and looking at the maps, I thought the Lands of Umbra (the long thin stretch of PR) was the river running beside the Verdant Heights / forest from Aeden Aqueous / lake up to the Burning Desert, to supply the Fyros with water. I don't think it's anywhere near that straight-forward any more though.
I sorta wonder if the desert isn't rotated 45 degrees one way, and the jungle rotated 45 degrees another way... there's an area off the north of the jungle map that looks similar to the nexus minor, and an area of green surrounding the desert town of Thesos in the south-east that almost looks like the cliffs of the forest
the way the sky moves might give us a clue as to whether or not even some lands are rotated, not merely just shifted. (whether intentionally designed that way or not, so it could be misleading if the lands are meant to be rotated but the moon and sun travel across the sky as if they were aligned the way the map shows)
It's really hard to explain impassible terrain... homins are smart enough to build ladders. they should be able to scale any cliff given time and lack of aggro. It's too bad there's no way to make anything in this game that could be gradually discovered. as soon as one person finds it, everyone rushes there and soon it is no longer new and there is the desire for more.
