Fun Fact

[Steelclaw]

Also, if an Istarian day really is 1/24 of our day...

Whoa, hang on there! A day is the amount of time it takes for one day/night cycle, not the passage of 86400 seconds. A second in Istaria is still a second here. Take a look at your spells' casting and recycle timers. (They're in deciseconds.)

Your initial move speed calculations were pretty close. Istarian move speeds are in decimeters per second, so that speed of 220 would translate into 22.0m/s, or about 50 mph.

As for the size of Istaria, yeah, the explored land area is pretty small. The current client contains design assumptions that the world won't be larger than 65km x 65km, though with some changes, we could safely go to 2048km x 2048km... but who needs that much space, anyway?

What this means is that for RP purposes, you'll either have to accept that Istaria is kind of small compared to Earth; or that Istaria is comparable to Earth in size and its inhabitants just move unnaturally fast. Of course, we haven't considered things like the density of the atmosphere, or the mass of a dragon or biped, so maybe "unnaturally fast" isn't so unnatural after all.

[Racktor]

Yeah.. exactly XD Just like Jupiter has 8 hour days. It rotates fast, it doesn't just have 2/3 of a second seconds. =P

Geeze, guys, read up some before you judge me for the 1/24 second! xD Meepsa is the one that originally suggested that idea based on the fact clocks rotate faster. I just decided I'd do the calculations to show insane that'd be anyways.

Also, by 1/24 of our day, I mean that 1 Istarian day = 1 earth hour. 24 earth hours = 1 earth day. In comparison, Istaria's day is 1/24 of our day.

As for the size of Istaria, yeah, the explored land area is pretty small. The current client contains design assumptions that the world won't be larger than 65km x 65km, though with some changes, we could safely go to 2048km x 2048km... but who needs that much space, anyway?

.....*raises paw* I, for one, would absolutely adore an eastern continent. :3 Of course, with larger size comes smaller chances of running into other people, though.

What this means is that for RP purposes, you'll either have to accept that Istaria is kind of small compared to Earth; or that Istaria is comparable to Earth in size and its inhabitants just move unnaturally fast. Of course, we haven't considered things like the density of the atmosphere, or the mass of a dragon or biped, so maybe "unnaturally fast" isn't so unnatural after all.

Maybe they're made of dark matter and just defy the laws of gravity and friction like a boss? Oh well, just something to ponder! Thanks for lighting things up around that.

[Northwind]

Thanks Steelclaw

Cheers :beer: