How big is RuneScape world?

Nate · **Posted:** April 15th, 2006, 3:08 pm

Mistymaple wrote:

CreepyPirate wrote:

RS is tiny compared to other mmog it could get a lot bigger.

It could indeed but then imagine how long it'd take newbies to walk if they couldn't tele or anything.

Takes me 15 mins to walk from alkaraid to west ardy.

Takes me 8 hours to get from the east side of guild wars to the west.

Adbot · **Posted:** April 15th, 2006, 3:08 pm

Rapidash · **Posted:** April 15th, 2006, 7:54 pm

Nate just OWNED Jagex.

notouchy461 · **Posted:** April 16th, 2006, 5:58 am

depends on whos point of veiw you mean, yours or your characters. If its you character, about the size of a medium sized state (indiana, michigan, ohio, etc.), to you..about as big as a large bedroom.

amorous101 · **Posted:** April 17th, 2006, 8:57 am

It obviously has room for expansion, as mentioned previously. You can tell by simply looking at the world map; the black areas repressent what will one day be all new members area. Once the black areas run out, Jagex can make more if they please. It's infinite.

pziko · **Posted:** April 17th, 2006, 11:22 am

Interesting question!

Lets see...

* A herb patch is 2x2 movement squares

* On the downloadable jagex map a herb patch is 6 pixels wide.

* Therefore the scale of the map is 3 pixels per square.

* Assume each square is 1 metre (reasonable given the size of the characters and walking times)

* So the map scale is 3 pixels per metre. (Since RS is a UK game and Andrew is >30 years old, actually more likely to be 1 pixel per foot).

* The total area of the map excluding black areas (but including seas) is 3076 x 2556 pixels.

* So RS would be only about 1 square kilometre in the real world.

Wow! Did I go wrong somewhere?

MetalManiac9 · **Posted:** April 18th, 2006, 12:00 pm

Amv1234 wrote:

Think of it this way:
The universe. Ever expanding and always changed by gravity.

I have to correct you here
It isn't proven that the universe is ever expanding
my physics teacher, wich is very smart, the smartest person i've ever met, he says that there are theories that the universe one day will come together again.
This is called 'the big crunch' wich has the reversed effect of 'the big bang'.

To get back to the mater at hand, I think the world of Gielinor is pretty small compared to other MMORPG's.
but i think that's logical cause it is made in Java.
I do wonder what the world of Gielinor will be like at 5 years.
Atleast if Runescape will still exist then.

Adbot · **Posted:** April 18th, 2006, 12:00 pm

Rapidash · **Posted:** April 18th, 2006, 12:33 pm

It's survived 6 years, and it is still getting more and more popular. I think it'll last 5 more years, lol.

MetalManiac9 · **Posted:** April 19th, 2006, 3:30 am

I sure hope so
i don't know what i would do without runescape

Ryan51 · **Posted:** April 19th, 2006, 7:04 pm

metalmaniac9 wrote:

Amv1234 wrote:

Think of it this way:
The universe. Ever expanding and always changed by gravity.

I have to correct you here
It isn't proven that the universe is ever expanding
my physics teacher, wich is very smart, the smartest person i've ever met, he says that there are theories that the universe one day will come together again.
This is called 'the big crunch' wich has the reversed effect of 'the big bang'.

To get back to the mater at hand, I think the world of Gielinor is pretty small compared to other MMORPG's.
but i think that's logical cause it is made in Java.
I do wonder what the world of Gielinor will be like at 5 years.
Atleast if Runescape will still exist then.

what does gielinor have to do with runescape???

Rapidash · **Posted:** April 19th, 2006, 10:16 pm

I think it's another name for RuneScape..

sneak1230 · **Posted:** April 19th, 2006, 10:26 pm

it is....its just another name for rs...."the name guthix gave to the land" yeah it's all at the new miningame...and in some old books

MetalManiac9 · **Posted:** April 20th, 2006, 9:54 am

Ryan51 wrote:

what does gielinor have to do with runescape???

Gielinor is the name of the world.
But it's more known as Runescape.
It's understandable that you don't know that cause you're F2P.

Brad · **Posted:** April 20th, 2006, 10:21 am

Nate wrote:

Mistymaple wrote:

CreepyPirate wrote:

RS is tiny compared to other mmog it could get a lot bigger.

It could indeed but then imagine how long it'd take newbies to walk if they couldn't tele or anything.

Takes me 15 mins to walk from alkaraid to west ardy.

Takes me 8 hours to get from the east side of guild wars to the west.

you couldn't Walk that distance in 15 minutes, be realistic.

Andy · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2006, 7:43 am

Dave wrote:

I'm sure you could use some advanced math formula to figure out the area, but thats beyond me. Runescape is made on computer software and such so it is easy for them to make the world bigger. They can keep making it bigger until they run out of hard drive space.

agreed - and as hard dirves are becomming larger and growing more storage then rs2 is so i think that it will be around untill it becomes 2 'uncool' and we have a drop off of members

but that doesn't look like it's goin to happen anytime soon

Lisaz · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2006, 10:22 am

i think they gonna update and update runescape so its gonna be very big sometime