(11-19-2013, 05:27 PM)Naunet Wrote:Me too!(11-19-2013, 05:17 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Oh god. Â DON'T REMIND ME OF WHAT WE COULD HAVE THAT WE DON'T HAVE. Â
We could have seasonal changes. Â All my sads. Â
Inorite.
It would be quite possibly the best thing ever. It might even be almost enough to make me forget we don't have wardrobe slots. Almost.
I WANT SEASONS! D:
On the geography of Eorzea thing; did I dream it, or was it implied that taking the airship from one city-state to another takes a whole day? I thought for sure that someone said something of that effect when I first traveled.
From what I've read, most conventional blimps used to have speeds of up to 50km/h (likely less than 30km/h, though), and some modern ones that I've heard about can go up to 125km/h (I think it was a hybrid, so not full on blimp).
I would say that the Eorzean goes up to 50km/h max, considered their open passenger space nature, which suggest a distance of at least 1200km between two city-states. It wouldn't be very comfortable though at those speeds *imagines Lalafells raining from the sky from being blow off airships*, and I think 30km/h is more realistic, which means that it would be 720km between one city-state to the next in the air.
Travel by land I would imagine could nearly double the length by having to go over, under and around obstacles. A chocobo constantly running the whole way (I'm gonna use horse's somewhat canter speed of 20km/h), straight-line on flat surface of 720km would take 36 hours.
If we say that land speed with obstacles is about 1200km, it takes 60 hours. If we remember that they're supposed to be living beings, we'll have to calculate walk speed, which would be around 170 hours, no eating or sleeping.
Adding in eating and sleeping, it seems like it would take around two weeks to travel by chocobo between two of the city-states.
Which means that the game-world is really, really condensed. And we now know why the Aethernet, even as it is only useful to adventurers, is being maintained and we're being sent on all these fetch/letter/speak quests; if NPCs did it, it would take a loooong time.
And now I have a headache because my brain is allergic to maths (and all the numbers are probably wrong or something).
