WIP - Archipelago

[tilt]

looking better and better, one just wishes one could zoom in further - so when you're finished, you have to make some regional maps
and nice explanation about the level cap - I understand your sentiments, and with feats still comming in, the characters still have "something to work for" other than gathering wealth and fame of course

[jeffsheets]

looking better and better, one just wishes one could zoom in further - so when you're finished, you have to make some regional maps
and nice explanation about the level cap - I understand your sentiments, and with feats still comming in, the characters still have "something to work for" other than gathering wealth and fame of course

Thanks! Yeah... I really do want the view to be closer, but at the scale this map is, a microscope would be needed. Don't worry, closer maps of important locations will be made.

I think a better sense of scale than the... scale... in the bottom left corner, would be to compare sizes. The big floatstone islands are 46.4 pixels across (thank GIMP for the measurement tool!). 40 pixels, as can be determined by the scale on the map, is equal to one kilometer. This means that the bigger floatstones are about 1.1 to 1.2 km wide. Floatstone islands are generally taller than they are wide, so that means any one of those floatstones is bigger, generally, than one of our real life skyscrapers, and the bigger floatstone islands are bigger even than the biggest planned skyscraper in any dimension. Long story short, the big floatstone islands can have the population of medieval cities if they are fully inhabited, and most of them will be in this region. Some of the smaller floatstones may serve as naval forts, or personal clan homes, or merchant hubs.

More scale: Each of the spiral sea-trees is about the size of extant US skyscrapers. Though filled with wildlife inside the spiral, they can easily support a population of 1,000 or more citizens. (This is reduced from my earlier "claim" of 5,000... I just can't see that many people living self-sufficiently inside even something that big. It would be CROWDED!)

Even more scale: In this latest version, the largest caps of the Marishrooms is about 375 meters. That's generally the size of an average American city block.

Even more more scale: The map, from edge of image to edge of image, is 90 km. The map depicts a region about the size of the Chicago metropolitan area.

So..... technically? This is by no means a world map. It already is a regional map. Rest assured that the rest of the world is similarly in a state of deluge with similarly exotic methods of living.

And here is the latest version, with individual seatree brush, reduced size marishrooms (which I'm now comfy with), and 5 more floatstone island brush frames to add to the variety.