[Discuss] A Couple Errors I have Found

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 2 Apr 2008 at 12:30, Tom Skibo wrote:

> While most of these don't really make any large impact, they still are
> pretty annoying, and or misleading.
> 
> The first of these is region links.  Most seem to be fine in the
> normal game, but are off when you seem them while not in your realm
> (for lack of a better way to put it).  It hard to explain so I will
> give a few examples. On my family page, when I click the link for my
> families home region on Atamara, it gives me the page for a city on
> the EC.  On my character who just arrived in Beluterra, when I was
> choosing a realm, under detail, under Regions controlled by Realm X,
> when I click on details it shows me random Dwilight regions instead.

This is because of the way the links are created. They are referenced by ID 
numbers, but the IDs are not unique to that island. f.ex: All islands have a 
region "20". If the last character you accessed was on Atamara, and someone 
passes you a region link, it will show you the region with that ID number of 
Atamara.

> The other error I noticed has to do with the realm descriptions when
> you are choosing a character.  With this the only one I really noticed
> was off was that it called the Kingdom of Alluran, a 5 region realm, a
> large realm, while calling Thalmarkin, a 7 region realm, a small
> realm.  It might be based on population, but it is still kinda
> misleading.

Probably population. Kingdom of Alluran owns the largest city on the island, and 
has over 7 times the population of Thalmarkin.

There really is no other way to base the "size" the realm. Population 
determines, in a rough way, the income of the realm and the number of nobles 
that realm can support. Going by a simple region count would be even more 
misleading, as a realm can have many small and poor regions.

-- 
Rob

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