Anyways, why do you need large land mass in games like WoW, you really don't. It is a raid based game with tons of instancing, with multiple servers. Landmass is needed for World Sim games that are based around the gathering and control of resurces and trade. Eve has all those star systems to promote their corp warfare, SWG had all those planets to promote player cities and commerce, Themeparks do not need wide open spaces.
So really size is irrelevant in modern MMORPGs because modern MMORPGs are primarily based upon raiding, which mostly involves instances now.
Large maps also makes one of the MMO player types very happy: The explorer.
It is true that many modern MMOs like Wow is more about running instances with your friends. I n fact Wow would probably have worked fine as a CORPG too.
But large maps do make the open world better. In a game like GW2 it really is a must.
Wow do of course fine as it is but it woudn't have hurt if it was larger.
OP: Yeah, the GW Nightfall number some guy is posting on the net is faulty. Tyria is larger than Elona (Cantha is the smallest map however), I do believe that the Tyria map is somewhat larger than you counted, 10% of possible 20% based on many hours of play in the game. GW is not the largest game out there but it is pretty high still. I hope GW2 will become larger eventually.
Note: You have to normalize land size, by run speed. Not the other way around. Given that the average person runs at a given speed (ie: jogging = 6mph), you use that as a scale to determine world size.
Coincidentally, in the time it takes to run threw 5 chunks in VG, you can travel the entire length of a continent within WoW. Ironically... given artifical barriers and walls, you may have to "run around" obsticles that lengthen most trips, but once you know running speed, all the other calculation become scale.
Most game will never have to be bigger than VG... I still havn't seen the whole world.
Exept do you take the slowest run speed or the fastest? Where there might be huge difference...
In the mid-90s there was a game called Terra: Battle for the Outland. It was a vehicular based shooter mmog.
That being said, there were times you could spend 2-3 hours driving at "60km/h" and not reach the edge of the world. If I recall the world itself was divided into 2 halves with a buffer zone between them. Each half was 100-120km north/south and about twice that east/west.
As far as I know, the game is long dead, but it did consume many hours of my time.
Alright, I did some more testing in Rift, and this is what I came up with:
run speed: 10.8 m/h
For this I used the distance feature ingame where it states how far you are from a location. I ran for 30 seconds, and see what distance I'd traveled.
crossing distance:
worldmap from north => south: corrected to 25.5 min
worldmap from east => west: corrected to 30.5 min
I ran a certain distance in a straight line, checked how long it took, then compared the distance traveled on the worldmap to the overall size of the world.
The run speed and crossing distance led to the following size for the world in miles:
worldmap from north => south: corrected to 4.6 miles
worldmap from east => west: corrected to 5.5 miles
I admit, the final result was a surprise, based on earlier tests I'd thought the world of Rift to be as large as 1 WoW continent or maybe somewhat smaller, but that was before I took the run speed difference into account.
Based on the figures above this is how the actual comparison would look like, when you'd put Rift's regions next to WoW's Kalimdor (I picked Kalimdor, because most people are familiar with the general feel and size of it)
edit: I replaced it with the new picture that's more accurate:
The scale seems off.
Looking at the rift playable world, it can fit inside of the barrens with a little spilling over into dustwallow. There is no way the outdoor playable world can fit in the barrens + bit of dustwallow. The scale has to be incorrect.
Pre Outlands, pre Nothrend and pre Cataclysm numbers.
OPs data was accurate when? 2007? 5 years ago?
Why such sloppy work OP?
? Did the continents Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms suddenly grow in size, what used to be a certain time to cross the Barrens suddenly taking double that time?
The information for the figures is found in the source links, also what these figures were linked to, the WoW tests done were pretty extensive. Sure, tBC added 2 regions on top of Eastern Kingdoms but it isn't hard to see when following that link what those size figures mean. But I'll add 'WoW vanilla' in the OP for those that don't want to bother reading source links.
If you're not using "current" world sizes, then maybe you should change your signature line from "
To something else more fitting of the measurements.
WOW has Kalimdor, and Eastern Kingdom the size of Kalimdor. It has Outland which is a fairly large island of zones. And Northrend.... and Cataclysm Zones... Pretty damn MASSIVE by now.
Why compare size of an mmo how it was 5 years ago? People aren't buying a game in the state it was then, they're buying it as it is NOW.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
I think the game world "physical" size is really irrelevant if the design of the game arbitrarily breaks the world into tiered regions. Eg. in one area you find lvl 1 squirrels, but over in another spot lvl 2132 squirrels are the norm. This is of course done to support level based tiered progression, but in doing so it makes what might as well be two entirely different worlds. The lvl 1 toon is for all intensive purposes locked out of the lvl 2000+ squirrels area, and the lvl 1 squirrel area has no relevance to the high level character.
This is off topic, but....you just clearly illustrated what, in my opinion, is wrong with most modern MMOs. No part of the world should become "irrelevant." A "living breathing" world should always be relevant regardless of how "old" you are. Of course this would bring me to the question of the wisdom of levels. I'm a fan of skill based games, so you might imagine what I think of levels anyway.
Anyhow....sorry for the off topic comment, but I felt it needed to be said.
At first I figured the OP didn't include EVE because it is simply not even close, or fair to compair other MMO size to it.
Well, as a first reason it's not land-based so it's hard to compare. And secondly, I did try to find hard data just as with the other MMO's but couldn't find any, so that's why
I mean, I also still haven't any concrete data of EQ, Vanguard and AC which should be easy to be determined, so let alone EVE.
But, if people have data about the size of EVE or links to it, feel free to share. I've learnt that SWG used 10x10x10 miles cubes for their space areas.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Well, you might find it silly, but I don't and apparently the maker of that map didn't either.
In fact, it gives me a pretty good idea how MMO's compare to eachother when laying one continent next to another of a different MMO, especially if I'm intimately familiar and aware of the size of 1 of the continents used.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Well, you might find it silly, but I don't and apparently the maker of that map didn't either.
In fact, it gives me a pretty good idea how MMO's compare to eachother when laying one continent next to another of a different MMO, especially if I'm intimately familiar and aware of the size of 1 of the continents used.
You need to take into account if game A has 10 more continents of the same size, where game B having only that 1 continent in the picture. It's simple really..
I would hope some one nitpicky enough to look at the size of a game world would know how many continents there are in total and would as a result be capable of piecing that together on their own.
Or is this an argument of 'assume everyone is a moron'?
Only showing one continent to one continent is functional because it's not hard to extrapolate a single point of reference across repeated segments since you've all ready established comparision of scale.
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners." - Thomas B. Macaulay
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
You need to take into account if game A has 10 more continents of the same size, where game B having only that 1 continent in the picture. It's simple really..
I don't see where you got the impression that I didn't.
Where I don't mention the complete worldsize is when I don't have those exact figures, so if you see any MMORPG on my list where that's lacking, please feel free to provide the figures and numbers that you think are missing, preferrably with source link.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
You need to take into account if game A has 10 more continents of the same size, where game B having only that 1 continent in the picture. It's simple really..
I don't see where you got the impression that I didn't.
Where I don't mention the complete worldsize is when I don't have those exact figures, so if you see any MMORPG on my list where that's lacking, please feel free to provide the figures and numbers that you think are missing, preferrably with source link.
In your initial post under "WoW", you mention two continents. This to start with is incorrect. It has 4 continents + 1 more expansion worth of zones losely fit together. I don't have exact measurements of these standalone continents but it would serve the argument of the OP to mention these for sake of accuracy..
It's not game size that really matters. It's the level of depth the world has. We don't want games like Daggerfall do we? I think it has the largest world but it is randomly generated and everything feels generic. SWG is another game with a massive world which comes to mind. Yet the world lacked level of depth and a lot of it was just a wasteland.
If you have a massive world, make sure it doesn't all feel the same and make sure it's not just a wasteland with little flora/fauna or other details...
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You know back on page six this point was somewhat addressed.
Notably with a 'read the source links' comment on that WoW data.
By adding those zones it doesn't suddenly change the original stats about traveling distance. What it does is increase the overall size of the world, but the scale stays the same.
Which leads to two points.
1) Listing the other continents only serves those completely unfamiliar and incapable of looking at a scaled Kalimdor and realizing what that means for the same scaled versions of the rest of the map means.
2) The data for those continents would have to be provided and combined with the rest, which is not provided in the source material it's pulled from, and as such can not be commented on factually until presented with factual data.
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners." - Thomas B. Macaulay
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
In your initial post under "WoW", you mention two continents. This to start with is incorrect. It has 4 continents + 1 more expansion worth of zones losely fit together. I don't have exact measurements of these standalone continents but it would serve the argument of the OP to mention these for sake of accuracy..
(etc)
You apparently misunderstood my first post, especially if you're convinced that I only think there are 2 continents in WoW (which is a bit insulting, when I think of it).
I posted the examples that I found in my OP, I never said in my OP that I did otherwise.
Originally posted by fivoroth
It's not game size that really matters. It's the level of depth the world has. We don't want games like Daggerfall do we? I think it has the largest world but it is randomly generated and everything feels generic. SWG is another game with a massive world which comes to mind. Yet the world lacked level of depth and a lot of it was just a wasteland.
It's the combination of the size of a world, the travel options and the content it has that provide the feel of of a world's vastness or lack of it.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
It's the combination of the size of a world, the travel options and the content it has that provide the feel of of a world's vastness or lack of it..
Ah! Then I have to admit i got derailed from the initial purpose of the thread! With the above I agree that only perhaps the largest of any available continents within any game is needed to describe what you just reiterated for me. Cheers!
To be honest I'm courious about EvE, that one will be hard to figure out unless the company gives you the info. Also I would expect Tera's launch size to be around the size of WOW vanilla or a tad larger.
It would be impossible for anyone to come up with a comparison of Eve's size, possibly even with the data from CCP. According to my corp CEO (long-time Eve player) there are estimated to be over 5,000 wormhole systems. Many have never been seen by anyone. There's an NPC race out somewhere in wormhole space that no one has seen in several years.
@ the OP: Also, Eve throws a huge wrench in the works of guaging distance by crossing speed. How do you calculate this? There's so many speeds you can travel at. If you go by your standard of "jogging" that would be more or less the equivalent of standard sub-warp speed in Eve, which itself can vary from under 100 meters per second on big ships, to over 1000 meters per second on a fast frigate with an afterburner. (You can go faster with a microwarp drive, but that's not sustainable indefinitely.) But any ship traveling at sub-warp speeds is going to take hours to cross a single system. Maybe days. I'm not sure if anyone's ever done it. Then you have warp speed. Standard frigates warp at 6AU/second. Cruisers warp at 3AU/second. I'm sure there's other ships that warp even faster or slower.
And if you're gauging Eve at warp speed, shouldn't you be gauging other games based on the speed of the fastest mounts people typically have? With all of WoW now being accessible with a flying mount at 310% running speed, that would make the game world much smaller, relative to other games that don't have flying mounts.
Alright, I'm going to update this thread with some info about the so far elusive SW:TOR (regarding size, that is).
The update: Alderaan is 7-8 World of Warcraft Zones in size
That makes Alderaan as big as Outland or almost half of Kalimdor, and that's just one planet (or another comparison: 1 SWTOR planet is almost as large as the entire world of Rift).
Now I don't expect Alderaan being the largest Planet. SWG used the samish 10 x 10 miles grid for its planets, so let's say that SWTOR's normal Planets are an average of 7-8 WoW zones.
An Origin planet was said to be something of a quarter of a normal Planet, so on average 2 zones.
WoW vanilla had 40-45 zones. Outland has 7 zones. WoW post-CATA counts about 60 zones.
So far, 13 normal Planets have been revealed and 4 Origin Planets.
That makes the total size of SWTOR so far about 105 WoW zones.
Or translated: that makes SWTOR at least 2.5 times the size of WoW vanilla and at least 1.7 times WoW post-CATA.
And more planets are still to be revealed, earlier statements hinted at 20, 20+ planets.
The size estimate will be adjusted ofc as more detailed info will become available.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Alright, I'm going to update this thread with some info about the so far elusive SW:TOR (regarding size, that is).
The update: Alderaan is 7-8 World of Warcraft Zones in size
That makes Alderaan as big as Outland or almost half of Kalimdor, and that's just one planet.
Now I don't expect Alderaan being the largest Planet. SWG used the samish 10 x 10 miles grid for its planets, so let's say that SWTOR's normal Planets are an average of 7-8 WoW zones.
An Origin planet was said to be something of a quarter of a normal Planet, so on average 2 zones.
WoW vanilla had 40-45 zones. Outland has 7 zones. WoW post-CATA counts about 60 zones.
So far, 13 normal Planets have been revealed and 4 Origin Planets.
That makes the total size of SWTOR so far about 105 WoW zones.
Or translated: that makes SWTOR at least 2.5 times the size of WoW vanilla.
And more planets are still to be revealed, earlier statements hinted at 20, 20+ planets.
The size estimate will be adjusted ofc as more detailed info will become available.
That doesn't tell us anything. It has been stated before that comparisons depend on how long it takes you to go through a zone and not the actual size. One planet can be 7-8 times the size of one WoW zone, but then again the characters in TOR can be 7-8 times the size of a WoW character and move 7-8 times faster.
That doesn't tell us anything. It has been stated before that comparisons depend on how long it takes you to go through a zone and not the actual size. One planet can be 7-8 times the size of one WoW zone, but then again the characters in TOR can be 7-8 times the size of a WoW character and move 7-8 times faster.
Be honest. Bit of an extreme example, don't you think?
So far the run speed and average character size of MMORPG's have stayed within range from eachother, with only Rift showing a considerable lower normal run speed. Besides, how fast a player can go doesn't change a thing about the actual size of an area, only how that size is perceived.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
That doesn't tell us anything. It has been stated before that comparisons depend on how long it takes you to go through a zone and not the actual size. One planet can be 7-8 times the size of one WoW zone, but then again the characters in TOR can be 7-8 times the size of a WoW character and move 7-8 times faster.
Be honest. Bit of an extreme example, don't you think?
So far the run speed and average character size of MMORPG's have stayed within range from eachother, with only Rift showing a considerable lower normal run speed. Besides, how fast a player can go doesn't change a thing about the actual size of an area, only how that size is perceived.
Exactly. The worlds can be massive, but if your characters are too and you run fast then the size doesn't really matter much does it? Like you said, we have to wait for more details. Saying the worlds are big doesn't tell us anything.
I'm all for more accurate details and more evidence, but so far all the data gathered from the other MMORPG's have shown average human character sizes and normal speeds not to vary wildly from one MMORPG to the other, they stayed pretty close to eachother, and I expect that SW:TOR won't be the sudden exception in this.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
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Large maps also makes one of the MMO player types very happy: The explorer.
It is true that many modern MMOs like Wow is more about running instances with your friends. I n fact Wow would probably have worked fine as a CORPG too.
But large maps do make the open world better. In a game like GW2 it really is a must.
Wow do of course fine as it is but it woudn't have hurt if it was larger.
OP: Yeah, the GW Nightfall number some guy is posting on the net is faulty. Tyria is larger than Elona (Cantha is the smallest map however), I do believe that the Tyria map is somewhat larger than you counted, 10% of possible 20% based on many hours of play in the game. GW is not the largest game out there but it is pretty high still. I hope GW2 will become larger eventually.
Exept do you take the slowest run speed or the fastest? Where there might be huge difference...
In the mid-90s there was a game called Terra: Battle for the Outland. It was a vehicular based shooter mmog.
That being said, there were times you could spend 2-3 hours driving at "60km/h" and not reach the edge of the world. If I recall the world itself was divided into 2 halves with a buffer zone between them. Each half was 100-120km north/south and about twice that east/west.
As far as I know, the game is long dead, but it did consume many hours of my time.
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The scale seems off.
Looking at the rift playable world, it can fit inside of the barrens with a little spilling over into dustwallow. There is no way the outdoor playable world can fit in the barrens + bit of dustwallow. The scale has to be incorrect.
If you're not using "current" world sizes, then maybe you should change your signature line from "
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
To something else more fitting of the measurements.
WOW has Kalimdor, and Eastern Kingdom the size of Kalimdor. It has Outland which is a fairly large island of zones. And Northrend.... and Cataclysm Zones... Pretty damn MASSIVE by now.
Why compare size of an mmo how it was 5 years ago? People aren't buying a game in the state it was then, they're buying it as it is NOW.
? What point are you trying to make?
You only need 1 continent of an MMORPG as a baseline to get a grasp of how large one MMO world is in comparison to another one.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
This is off topic, but....you just clearly illustrated what, in my opinion, is wrong with most modern MMOs. No part of the world should become "irrelevant." A "living breathing" world should always be relevant regardless of how "old" you are. Of course this would bring me to the question of the wisdom of levels. I'm a fan of skill based games, so you might imagine what I think of levels anyway.
Anyhow....sorry for the off topic comment, but I felt it needed to be said.
On topic:
Yes, size DOES matter.
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4 hours to cross EVE's universe? Even using jumpgates that is massivly wrong. EVE is MUCH larger.
EVE wins without even a close matchup for size of universe. If you measured it in miles, even more so.
At first I figured the OP didn't include EVE because it is simply not even close, or fair to compair other MMO size to it.
Well, as a first reason it's not land-based so it's hard to compare. And secondly, I did try to find hard data just as with the other MMO's but couldn't find any, so that's why
I mean, I also still haven't any concrete data of EQ, Vanguard and AC which should be easy to be determined, so let alone EVE.
But, if people have data about the size of EVE or links to it, feel free to share. I've learnt that SWG used 10x10x10 miles cubes for their space areas.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Wow, that's just wrong on so many levels.
To show how large an MMO world is in comparison to other games, you include all zones/continents.
I mean.. otherwise it would be as silly as to for example overlay WoW's Kalimdor on a map of Darkfall.. :-)
Well, you might find it silly, but I don't and apparently the maker of that map didn't either.
In fact, it gives me a pretty good idea how MMO's compare to eachother when laying one continent next to another of a different MMO, especially if I'm intimately familiar and aware of the size of 1 of the continents used.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
You need to take into account if game A has 10 more continents of the same size, where game B having only that 1 continent in the picture. It's simple really..
I would hope some one nitpicky enough to look at the size of a game world would know how many continents there are in total and would as a result be capable of piecing that together on their own.
Or is this an argument of 'assume everyone is a moron'?
Only showing one continent to one continent is functional because it's not hard to extrapolate a single point of reference across repeated segments since you've all ready established comparision of scale.
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners." - Thomas B. Macaulay
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
I don't see where you got the impression that I didn't.
Where I don't mention the complete worldsize is when I don't have those exact figures, so if you see any MMORPG on my list where that's lacking, please feel free to provide the figures and numbers that you think are missing, preferrably with source link.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
In your initial post under "WoW", you mention two continents. This to start with is incorrect. It has 4 continents + 1 more expansion worth of zones losely fit together. I don't have exact measurements of these standalone continents but it would serve the argument of the OP to mention these for sake of accuracy..
Kalimdor
Eastern Kingdom
Outlands
Northrend
+ Cataclysm zones
Thanks!
It's not game size that really matters. It's the level of depth the world has. We don't want games like Daggerfall do we? I think it has the largest world but it is randomly generated and everything feels generic. SWG is another game with a massive world which comes to mind. Yet the world lacked level of depth and a lot of it was just a wasteland.
If you have a massive world, make sure it doesn't all feel the same and make sure it's not just a wasteland with little flora/fauna or other details...
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You know back on page six this point was somewhat addressed.
Notably with a 'read the source links' comment on that WoW data.
By adding those zones it doesn't suddenly change the original stats about traveling distance. What it does is increase the overall size of the world, but the scale stays the same.
Which leads to two points.
1) Listing the other continents only serves those completely unfamiliar and incapable of looking at a scaled Kalimdor and realizing what that means for the same scaled versions of the rest of the map means.
2) The data for those continents would have to be provided and combined with the rest, which is not provided in the source material it's pulled from, and as such can not be commented on factually until presented with factual data.
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners." - Thomas B. Macaulay
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
You apparently misunderstood my first post, especially if you're convinced that I only think there are 2 continents in WoW (which is a bit insulting, when I think of it).
I posted the examples that I found in my OP, I never said in my OP that I did otherwise.
It's the combination of the size of a world, the travel options and the content it has that provide the feel of of a world's vastness or lack of it.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Ah! Then I have to admit i got derailed from the initial purpose of the thread! With the above I agree that only perhaps the largest of any available continents within any game is needed to describe what you just reiterated for me. Cheers!
It would be impossible for anyone to come up with a comparison of Eve's size, possibly even with the data from CCP. According to my corp CEO (long-time Eve player) there are estimated to be over 5,000 wormhole systems. Many have never been seen by anyone. There's an NPC race out somewhere in wormhole space that no one has seen in several years.
@ the OP: Also, Eve throws a huge wrench in the works of guaging distance by crossing speed. How do you calculate this? There's so many speeds you can travel at. If you go by your standard of "jogging" that would be more or less the equivalent of standard sub-warp speed in Eve, which itself can vary from under 100 meters per second on big ships, to over 1000 meters per second on a fast frigate with an afterburner. (You can go faster with a microwarp drive, but that's not sustainable indefinitely.) But any ship traveling at sub-warp speeds is going to take hours to cross a single system. Maybe days. I'm not sure if anyone's ever done it. Then you have warp speed. Standard frigates warp at 6AU/second. Cruisers warp at 3AU/second. I'm sure there's other ships that warp even faster or slower.
And if you're gauging Eve at warp speed, shouldn't you be gauging other games based on the speed of the fastest mounts people typically have? With all of WoW now being accessible with a flying mount at 310% running speed, that would make the game world much smaller, relative to other games that don't have flying mounts.
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Alright, I'm going to update this thread with some info about the so far elusive SW:TOR (regarding size, that is).
The update: Alderaan is 7-8 World of Warcraft Zones in size
That makes Alderaan as big as Outland or almost half of Kalimdor, and that's just one planet (or another comparison: 1 SWTOR planet is almost as large as the entire world of Rift).
Now I don't expect Alderaan being the largest Planet. SWG used the samish 10 x 10 miles grid for its planets, so let's say that SWTOR's normal Planets are an average of 7-8 WoW zones.
An Origin planet was said to be something of a quarter of a normal Planet, so on average 2 zones.
WoW vanilla had 40-45 zones. Outland has 7 zones. WoW post-CATA counts about 60 zones.
So far, 13 normal Planets have been revealed and 4 Origin Planets.
That makes the total size of SWTOR so far about 105 WoW zones.
Or translated: that makes SWTOR at least 2.5 times the size of WoW vanilla and at least 1.7 times WoW post-CATA.
And more planets are still to be revealed, earlier statements hinted at 20, 20+ planets.
The size estimate will be adjusted ofc as more detailed info will become available.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
That doesn't tell us anything. It has been stated before that comparisons depend on how long it takes you to go through a zone and not the actual size. One planet can be 7-8 times the size of one WoW zone, but then again the characters in TOR can be 7-8 times the size of a WoW character and move 7-8 times faster.
Be honest. Bit of an extreme example, don't you think?
So far the run speed and average character size of MMORPG's have stayed within range from eachother, with only Rift showing a considerable lower normal run speed. Besides, how fast a player can go doesn't change a thing about the actual size of an area, only how that size is perceived.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Exactly. The worlds can be massive, but if your characters are too and you run fast then the size doesn't really matter much does it? Like you said, we have to wait for more details. Saying the worlds are big doesn't tell us anything.
I'm all for more accurate details and more evidence, but so far all the data gathered from the other MMORPG's have shown average human character sizes and normal speeds not to vary wildly from one MMORPG to the other, they stayed pretty close to eachother, and I expect that SW:TOR won't be the sudden exception in this.
But we'll see.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."