Curse

Myth · May 10, 2006, 03:22 AM // 03:22

Yeah well whatever the population is, its going down, what with the plauge and us killing them all off and all.

My Sweet Revenga · May 10, 2006, 04:11 AM // 04:11

Ppppptttttthhhhhh. You want overcrowding? Pop into Elona's Reach district 1 back in Tyria. If they built an automated car factory by the merchant, they could churn out a mercedes every 30 seconds

Tobias Funke · May 10, 2006, 07:02 AM // 07:02

What I want to know is, WHERE DID ALL THE WOOD COME FROM? If you read the description of Kaineng Center, Kaineng City grew to it's present size when people left the rest of Cantha due to the jade wind. The only forest on the continent got turned to stone. Yet there is a ginormous city made of what appears to be several forests worth of wood.

=HT=Ingram · May 10, 2006, 07:05 AM // 07:05

you forgot to notice we are in an asian themed area. lol NVM I'm just an idiot. lol

Argen · May 10, 2006, 07:17 AM // 07:17

One simple very dangerous thought...

Can you imagine a fire... say started from a cigarette... or imagine if somebody would try to cook their food.

WHUSH!!! One giant paper and kindling pile. There should be a lot of no smoking signs... everywhere.

zakaria · May 10, 2006, 07:27 AM // 07:27

Anet is working on fire protection system coming soon in next update

Shanaeri Rynale · May 10, 2006, 08:09 AM // 08:09

I've always wondered why, our hero's unafraid of undead liches, corrupt spirits and huge dragons; instead of walking miles and miles around a block of houses don't just knock on the door and and say 'excuse me can I use your back door for a moment...'

Jormund · May 10, 2006, 08:12 AM // 08:12

Imagine: A fire breaks out.

Discuss.

Eviance · May 10, 2006, 08:38 AM // 08:38

see the point is they all live in poverty... did you see all the afflicted... common people! Those aren't people anymore they are corpses =P And honestly when you take a cities headcount do you go out and count the tombstones? >_>

>=P

generik · May 10, 2006, 09:07 AM // 09:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by TopGun

Zoom out your map.

You obviously never been to Hong Kong

Lexar · May 10, 2006, 10:35 AM // 10:35

You know you can run through the whole city side from side in what... 30 minutes if there's no mobs? It's actually really tiny compared to real life cities. The palace is already 1/3rd of the width of the city. My guess would be more like 200.000 because people do live very close on each other.

Artisan · May 10, 2006, 11:15 AM // 11:15

Yeah, it's not nearly as big as New York. And you can run from side to side in 12-14 minutes if there's no mobs.

Avarre · May 10, 2006, 11:46 AM // 11:46

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Originally Posted by Artisan

Yeah, it's not nearly as big as New York. And you can run from side to side in 12-14 minutes if there's no mobs.

qft..

It's not that large. In terms of straight lines it's fairly small... say 20 mins to run from one side to the other, judging at the character run speed, thats not very far.

I'd estimate the total population at around 500,000, maybe slightly more.

TaMa · May 10, 2006, 11:48 AM // 11:48

population of california, just like some overpacked chinese towns

GranDeWun · May 10, 2006, 12:06 PM // 12:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Argen

One simple very dangerous thought...

Can you imagine a fire... say started from a cigarette... or imagine if somebody would try to cook their food.

WHUSH!!! One giant paper and kindling pile. There should be a lot of no smoking signs... everywhere.

Not to mention Cynn dropping firestorm around...

Shusky · May 10, 2006, 01:12 PM // 13:12

Quote:

Imagine: A fire breaks out.

Discuss.

That means a happy fire elementalist whose pathing problems just got resolved. And lots of Canthan Fried Peasant.

Oh well, what I'd really want to see there would be an earthquake.

Quote:

What I want to know is, WHERE DID ALL THE WOOD COME FROM? If you read the description of Kaineng Center, Kaineng City grew to it's present size when people left the rest of Cantha due to the jade wind. The only forest on the continent got turned to stone. Yet there is a ginormous city made of what appears to be several forests worth of wood.

From the same magical place the Luxons get their water. And from where Kaineng, Droknar's Forge and Ascalon get their food. And Lion's Arch too, since their fields seem to be under permanent Ettin/Tengu invasion. It's also probably the same location in which Ritualists get their unlimited ashes supply.

Probably administered by the same guy who decided that jade shards would be the most expensive material in a goddamn Jade Sea area.

Kaguya · May 10, 2006, 01:15 PM // 13:15

From the Factions manual:

Quote:

Kisu became the sovereign ruler of several hundred thousand souls on the southern continent

Depends on what "several" means, but below million in any case.

crimsonfilms · May 10, 2006, 01:27 PM // 13:27

Cantha population - no more than several thousands (real players excluded).

bushe · May 10, 2006, 01:32 PM // 13:32

I would think it would be a few mill, based on the fact that Rome reached a little over 1.5 million in what I would (subjectively) judge to be a similar footprint and without the piles and piles of hovels. On the plus side think of the money to be made selling manufactured homes!! That is my next farming scheme for sure.

Artisan · May 10, 2006, 01:39 PM // 13:39

Here's some logic.

Lets say there were 104 trillion people in Kaineng. Say you put them each on a 4 square put spot. That's 2 feet by 2 feet. Pretty closely packed. Probalby decently accurate too, if you consider that they are fairly vertical. So can we say that there's roughly 1 person per 4 square feet in Kaineng?

That would mean, if there were 104 trillion people, spaced like that in Kaineng, then Kaineng city alone is over 22 times the size of the United States.

I dont' believe it looks like that on the map.