(12-30-2014, 03:46 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote: I'm pretty sure the population of Ul'dah is in the millions, not the thousands.
It's just that gameplay-story segregation means they can't render out an actual city of that size.
I don't think it's in the millions. Based on real life examples it's probably between 50,000 to 500,000. Rome had a million people in its heyday, and its like wasn't seen for another 1000 years. Even if you scale it out, anything more than a million people would make no sense by any historical context.
I'd assume Garlemald's capital to have around a million people, but I think the city states would have closer to a few hundred thousand.
To give some context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_...nity_sizes
I think Constantinople would give a good guideline, it hovered at around 200,000 before taken by the turks.
On second thought even that is even too large, constantinople at the time looked like this:
![[Image: xzNPtFKl.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/xzNPtFKl.jpg)
Ul'dah is probably 40 or 50 thousand at most.
