[crossfire] Re: Item stacking

[Lalo Martins]

I think on Bigworld scale (since "outdoors" has the same scale as
"in-city"), it makes more sense for a square to be a chain.  Otherwise
you'll be wondering how come Scorn is 40 miles long, and the imperial
road is 3 miles wide, and the "little" inn near the dragon hatchery is 2
miles... whereas one chain makes perfect sense (although it makes
Bigworld less "big").

Come to think of it, people who never heard of a chain might as well
assume it's a fictional measuring unit, representing a square.

But then I agree with you - pick the unit that sounds right, and stick
to it.  Just say "11 chains", not "1 furlong"; "80 chains", not "one mile".

(Then people who know what a chain is, or who are obsessive enough to
look it up, can be pleased and amazed at how the measurements all make
sense.)

And so says Mark Wedel on 27/08/05 12:25...
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       Basically, right now, as said, 1 space = 1 mile.  Thus, those signs
     
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      describe how many spaces the towns are from you.  IMO, this is a good
     
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      thing, especially for now players (how far do I hav to walk to get to
     
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      navar?)
     
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       Changing to obscure units IMO doesn't add anything - it either results
     
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      in players having to go to google to figure out how many furlongs in a
     
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      mile, conver that, and then know how far the town is apart.
     
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       I think for ease of use, the numbers as shown on the signs should
     
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      represent number of spaces.  If we want to call them some other unit, I
     
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      don't mind, but I don't want them changed to some value and then have
     
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      new players lost because they traveled 75 spaces in the right direction
     
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      and didn't find anything.  Things are already obscure enough - no reason
     
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      to make them harder for new players.
     
     

best,
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