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BELOW DATA EDITED TO SHOW CALCULATIONS FROM NEW INFORMATION

Planned size of a single Continent:

256kmx128km

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Thanks to Arktal for linking this

This post is about the rumored size of the game. I have included meters for our friends across the pond, and freedom units for us cheese burger lovers.

I've been reading A LOT of concern about the mentally-pictured size of the game, "How will we all have land?", "How can the game support over a few hundred counts?", "Will there be enough for us all to explore?"

All I can implore is: Think B I G G E R than you ever have before people

I hope to alleviate some of those concerns with the math here:

Picture something similar to Vermont... turned on its side, and surrounded by water...



Thanks to Subutai for the Vermont mental-picture

That breaks down to:

Hard Numbers 32,768 Square Kilometers 12,651 Square Miles 32,768,000,000 Square Meters (32bil) 352,711,968,397 Square Feet (352bil) 8,097,141 Parcels of Land (8mil)



Land/Water Distribution

Land/In-Land Water (Lakes, Rivers, Swamps)

99% Land Mass 32,440 Square Kilometers 12,524 Square Miles 349,184,848,713 Square Feet 8,016,169 Parcels of Land (Acres)

1% Water 327 Square Kilometers 127 Square Miles 3,527,119,683 Square Feet 80,971 Parcels (Acres)



Thanks to Corin for pointing this out

Wanted to add: These figures don't take into account mountains or other natural barriers/unbuildable geographical locales. This is simply game-world landmass.

Population Density and Spread

I cannot even guess how many continents there will be, so lets just assume 100,000 on this one continent for the sake of seeing distribution.

Based on 100,000 Pop. (Full to Brim)

Pop. Fully Spread out over Land (99%):

80 Parcels of Land per Person

A more Natural Spread, like Earth

43% Settlement Coverage of Land

3,446,953 Inhabited Parcels

34 Parcels of Land per Person

Some more interesting data:

1 Parcel (64mx64m)

44,093 Sq Ft

4,069 Sq Meters

34 Parcels Area

1,519,865 Sq Ft

6,184,330,492 Sq Meters

What can you build on 1,519,865 Square Feet?

Well... this one story home is 3,500 Square Feet(325 sq meters)



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The 6 floors of the White House come out to 55,000 Square Feet(5,110 sq meters)



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Windsor Castle chiming in at 484,00 Square Feet (44,965 sq meters)



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Malbork Castle comes in at 1,545,600 Square Feet (143,590 sq meters)

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Even More Interesting Data

Compare the sizes of these games:

GTA: San Andreas: 36km2 ,14mi2

Skyrim: 39km2 ,15mi2

Oblivion: 41km2 ,16mi2

Red Dead Redemption: 41km2 ,16mi2

FarCry 4: 46km2 ,18mi2

FarCry 2: 80km2 ,31mi2

GTA5: 81km2 ,32mi2

Original WoW: 207km2 ,80mi2

Star Wars Galaxies: 518km2 ,200mi2

Just Cause: 1036km2 ,400mi2

Asceron's Call: 1295km2 ,500mi2

Totals: 3420km2 1322 mi2

Then we have this:

Guild Wars Nightfall 38850km2 15000mi2

Older games have proven the size is possible.

Procedural Generation

With newer technology proving the server population limits are possible.

Examples w/ Video-Older massive server populations (Not the best source, but all I could find, SW:TOR failed in their aspirations, but their testing was solid in the beginning)

Server Sharding -And since instancing won't be in CoE, thats a heap of resources that can be put towards the server power.

Fun Game-Size Comparison Images

These are only assumptions and estimates, only to give an idea and comparison on size and possible geography of Chronicles of Elyria, take everything with a grain of salt

I hope you enjoyed!