(07-17-2017, 08:34 AM)Ehpo Pekhti Wrote: Yeah, the actual in game distances really are the big sticking point. If a chocobo can make the journey in a day, particularly since it wouldn't be as straight a shot as an airship, then that certainly would stand to reason that it could take 1/4 to 1/2 the time to fly if they do travel at that 85-100mph clip. That really does shrink down the world a bit considering the distance between Gridania and Ul'dah on the world map - I had thought it was a bigger continent!
Well, you also have to keep in mind that the in-game time goes WAY faster than our own. Just during the Grindstone, if we went by the in-game day/night cycle, three/four hours for us was "technically" a good couple days in Eorzean-time. Not that we stick to that, of course, or we wouldn't have time for anything!
But yeah, if you just watch how fast time ticks by switching to Eorzean Time... it might take a day for a Chocobo to say, run from Ul'dah to Horizon. The math probably doesn't perfectly check out (I doubt that much thought was put into it), but it does mean Eorzea's probably a lot bigger than you're giving it credit for.
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