[CF-Devel] speculations about the floor (elevation)

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David Seikel wrote:

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      The weather code puts the north and south poles at the top left and bottom
     
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      right corners, with the equator running from the top right to bottom left
     
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      corners of the big world map.  This implies that the 'island' is in fact a
     
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      major continent taking up most of one side of the planet.  While the pole
     
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      and equator placement where not my idea, I had to think these things
     
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      through when adding the Coriolis effect to the weather code.  Just for fun,
     
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      I decided to spin the Crossfire planet in the reverse direction to Earth.
     
     
  I was never really happy with the north and south poles being at the corners. 
  IT just isn't that intuitive.  I can understand the reason (want the poles to 
be relative small areas).  but I also wonder if the map as given should be seen 
as covering the entire world, or just some part of it (eg, one of the continents 
in the northern hemisphere, for example, such that the equator is near the south 
edge of the map, and the north pole would effectively be a few hundred spaces 
still farther to the north)



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      On the other hand, it would be good to make a decision, document it, and
     
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      stick to it, so that we are all on the same page.  As I mentioned before,
     
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      even the USA is officially metric (since 1866), so I say lets make things
     
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      metric.  Current elevations are within the bounds of reality for a small
     
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      planet with little tectonic activity if they are in meters.  Temperatures
     
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      are already in metric, as is the air pressure (I think).
     
     
  Would metric actually increase the effective elevations? Eg, that 'elevation 
12000' mountain would now be 36000 feet (about), meaning we have a bunch of 
really tall peaks.

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      Given the position of the poles a quick bit of maths says that squares 5km
     
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      on a side results in a planet about the size of Mars.  Do we want a bigger
     
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      planet or a smaller planet?  Smaller can explain why the tops of mountains
     
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      are impassable wastelands, they are probably above the atmosphere.
     
     
  As said, I never envisioned when making the continent that it would be an 
entire hemisphere, rather, it is just part of something bigger.  I suppose when 
the north and south poles were added, that added to the idea that it was an 
entire hemisphere, but I didn't do that bit :)

  Do I expect new continents to be added?  Not really.  However, when putting 
down the towns/roads, I did put up signs which basically amounted to 1 space = 1 
mile (eg, scorn, 764 miles north or something).  One could obviously make the 
case that a crossfire mile isn't the same as a human mile.




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