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Roda · **09-11-2013, 11:18 AM**

(09-11-2013, 08:24 AM)Ildur Wrote: reasons: making a world based on reality's scales would not only take a long time to fill up (meaning you would have long spaces of uninteresting locales), but would also mean the players have to spend more time travelling than actually playing.

So... like 1.0?
(although I would like for there to be more expansive zones. Travel time is fun if you have plenty of alternatives for the people who don't want to walk.)

(also here's a screenshot of the beyond-lands)
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Ildur · **09-11-2013, 09:06 PM**

I did not play 1.0, but I did hear the problem with it was that it was big and repetitive. If you are going to have a big world, you have to pack it full with locations, sights, odditites, NPCs, encounters...and to not place invisible walls everywhere.

Zones in ARR do feel kind of small and full. This was a design choice made to counteract the point above: a large game world feels empty if you don't invest enough time to place enough unique features in it. Just take a look at Skyrim for how a big world full of things to explore is done right.

But even then, you have the problem that, no matter how big the devs make the world, it will still be smaller than it should be in a realistic sense. Otherwise, you'll end up with a lot of unexplained things: like who can there be twenty NPCs living in a town when there's only three houses with two beds each; goods that exist and are items in-game but that have no production facilities in the game's despicted regions; farmlands that are too small to produce food for the towns and cities, etcetera.

DAISHI · **09-11-2013, 10:45 PM**

In terms of MMO design, bigger is not better in general. FFXIV learned this, WoW learned this, it's why travel time has been reduced across the board. People want to do things in their game, not walk around lost. There's a time for it, and you can have larger areas, but for a debuting game, packed content is the number one demand. No more FFXIV 1.0 mistakes.

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