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Sithlordz

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Equators?
« on: February 25, 2008, 05:24:00 am »
Assuming DF's worlds conform to the same rules of our own, should it not be very warm around the equator (Instead of temperate), and also more temperate north and south of the equator, instead of cold and warm respectively?
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Re: Equators?
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2008, 05:30:00 am »
The DF 'world' is actually representing a small continent-sized area.   Otherwise you'd be able to go off one end and return on another.
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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2008, 05:30:00 am »
Seconded. Very seconded.
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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2008, 05:42:00 am »
I might be wrong, but isn't this the case usually? The equator is already warmer than the poles, usually...maybe not always Warm, but it's at least temperate, while the poles are cold/freezing. I would like to have the equator even hotter, though!
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Re: Equators?
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2008, 05:45:00 am »
The north or south part of the map is the frozen north or south usually, and towards the other end is approaching the equator.   But, like I said, a DF world is not a planet; merely a country.
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Re: Equators?
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2008, 06:09:00 am »
I had the impression that a DF 'world' was about half or quarter of a planet. There's usually scorching at one pole and freezing at the other. So I guess in a sense it does have an equator, it's just not including the other half beyond it.
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Re: Equators?
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2008, 06:20:00 am »
I've heard Toady say a world (257x257, of course) would be about the size of England or somethin'.
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Sithlordz

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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2008, 09:02:00 am »
Then the temperature should be temperate all the way around. D:
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« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2008, 11:39:00 am »
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Originally posted by Capntastic:
<STRONG>But, like I said, a DF world is not a planet; merely a country.</STRONG>

We call it an eighth, although if you add up the assumed area of a tile and multiply by the number of tiles, you get an area roughly the size of the UK.

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« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2008, 11:16:00 pm »
If the UK where was made up of very tiny squares capable of holding an infinite amount of mass with one or two dominate states and many many subservient states (i.e. stuff that lays on the floor so you can pass).  If that is the case, then i really should schedule a trip to England sometime.
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« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2008, 12:36:00 am »
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Originally posted by Anfold:
<STRONG>If the UK where was made up of very tiny squares capable of holding an infinite amount of mass with one or two dominate states and many many subservient states (i.e. stuff that lays on the floor so you can pass).  If that is the case, then i really should schedule a trip to England sometime.</STRONG>

*Laughing his ass off*
Someone.  Put that up on the wiki quote archive.  NOW.

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