Today's Blog entry (Westcrown Map Scale)

[Tharen the Damned]

I just noticed that in the Blog entry the scale of the Westcrown map increased from
1 inch = 4,000 feet

to

1 inch = 1 mile inthe last paragraph.

I guess that this is due to an overworked editor or Westcrown is a truly giantic city :-)

[Paul Watson]

Tharen the Damned wrote:

I just noticed that in the Blog entry the scale of the Westcrown map increased from

1 inch = 4,000 feet

to

1 inch = 1 mile inthe last paragraph.

I guess that this is due to an overworked editor or Westcrown is a truly giantic city :-)

It's a city of Chelaxians. You know what they'll do if you give them an inch.

Spoiler:

For those not familiar with the idiom, it is "Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile." Commonly used to mean people should give away nothing or they'll end up giving away far more.

[Tharen the Damned]

Paul Watson wrote:

It's a city of Chelaxians. You know what they'll do if you give them an inch.

Nah, we operate more like:

Give us a finger and we take your Soul!

[Chris Mortika]

Actually, I think the scale changed from 1" = 4000' to the simpler 1" = 1 mile. That makes Westcrown enormous by real-world Renaissance standards, but not absurd. (A merchant with a horse-drawn cart can probably cross the city from one edge to the other in a half-day. That sounds about right.)

[Mairkurion {tm}]

I'm going to chew on this one a while, but I loved this blog. My favorite blog in some time!

[drow]

Medieval Demographics Made Easy, by S. John Ross
http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm

[Ughbash]

For reference, Rome which had a popualtion of approx 1 million was encased at the end of the third century AD by the Arelian wall. This wall was 11 miles in length and enclosed approximately 5 square miles.

Now we may not expect Westchase to be as densly populated as Rome (200k people per square mile) but if we make it 20k people per square mile 1/10th the population density it would only need 5 square miles.

This information came from the book "City and environment" By Christopher G. Boone, Ali Modarres.

Thus my recommendation 1 inch = 2500 feet (or roughly half a mile).

[Zootcat]

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

I'm going to chew on this one a while, but I loved this blog. My favorite blog in some time!

Agreed. Great blog!

[Sliebhein]

I tried looking into it, also using Rome as an example, and accounts seem to vary between a population of 450,000 to about 1,000,000.

According to this model, the city was about 10 square miles in size.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/photogalleries/rome-reborn/ index.html

At the lower end, that would mean a density of 44,000 people/square mile, and at the upper end, about 100,000 people/square mile.

Banshee

[Lanx]

Banshee16 wrote:

I tried looking into it, also using Rome as an example, and accounts seem to vary between a population of 450,000 to about 1,000,000.

According to this model, the city was about 10 square miles in size.

Rome reborn

At the lower end, that would mean a density of 44,000 people/square mile, and at the upper end, about 100,000 people/square mile.

Banshee

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[Requia]

I don't necessarily see this as unreasonable in size. What you have is probably more of a mix of urban and rural, with large chunks of land devoted to ranches or farms (mostly farms now probably, since the shadow beasts would make ranching difficult). With other areas simply being undeveloped. This isn't unreasonable if you have a city thats formed from several smaller settlements that grew until they overlapped. London is a good example of this.