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-//I keep searching for this post again, so I'm linking it here//: [[http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/crossfire/2005-August/009089.html|Brendan Lally on map scales]].
-ok, currently one square holds one person, even if they stretch out
-their hands, they don't occupy more than one square. This therefore
-suggests that the squares are sides of at least 1 fathom (that being
-the distance of someone between their outstretched hands. This is
-consistant with a bed being 1 square. Given that one tick is about 1
-second of game time (not real time), and that a player moves 1 square
-a tick at speed 1, this gives a walking speeed such that at speed of
-.0 a mile is covered in  (1 mile is 8 furlongs, is 80 chains, is 880
-fathoms) 880 seconds, or 14.7 minutes (which is about correct).
-The indoor maps are smaller on the outdoor maps, it tends to be the
-case, that 1 square outdoors correlates to 8-12 squares indoors. If
-the indoor squares are 1 fathom across, then the outside ones are
-about 10 fathoms across. Or almost 1 chain (11 fathoms). Since the
-value of 11:1 is well within the range of values that are used, and
-since it is a round number. It seems reasonable to consider each of
-the world map squares to be 1 chain. All the more so since this is the
-size used for buildings, and buildings have in the real world been set
-out on a scale of 1 chain for a house.
-from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_%28length%29]]
-"In the laying out of towns in Australia and New Zealand, most
-building lots in the past were a quarter of an acre, measuring one
-chain by two and a half chains, and other lots would be multiples or
-fractions of a chain. As a consequence, the street frontages of many
-houses in these countries are one chain wide — roads were almost
-always one chain wide (20.117 m) in urban areas, sometimes one and a
-half (30.175 m) or two chains (40.234 m)."
-In game most roads are 1 or 2 squares wide, which also fits in nicely.
-Furthermore, by adopting this standard, it means that 10 squares on
-the world map is 1 furlong, which gives a nice way to measure
-distances, because it is also about 1 screen (default is a map view of
-x11 IIRC). in the gtk2 client, it is about twice that, so you see
-one furlong in all directions.
-Ooh, and it also makes the distance from scorn to navar about 9 miles
-(75 furlongs), which is a somewhat saner estimate than 1000's of
-miles. 9 miles says 'you /can/ walk this but probably don't want to do
-so very often'.

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