(02-10-2016, 03:46 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote:You can look at things like the ARR cinematic, which has what appears to be thousands of soldiers fighting.(02-10-2016, 03:29 PM)Flynt Knoltros Wrote: This brings up an interesting question though, while some may choose to leave for the sake of immersion, have others begun to ignore or 'forget' that piece of lore or justify it with headcannons as to why we see so many more than there should be? This question isn't really in line with this thread, but I think an interesting discussion nonetheless.
I just assume what we see in game is only a small fraction of what would actually be available. A city that could be ran through in a matter of minutes would be a pretty small city, after all.
So...sure, we see a lot of "rare" races in our playtime, but there's likely far, far more of the more "common" races to fill it out in the background.
The actual scale of things is much larger, but in order to make the world fit on a PS3, some sacrifices had to be made.