How long would it take to walk to [Place]?

9 years 9 months ago #133873 by Gunnar Gunnarson (jhines0042)
I took the number of pixels on the map for the width of the scale (30 pixels)

Then I calculated the number of pixels on a direct diagonal from the rift to the start of AmonZod region (aiming at the 'n' at the end of Ja'Hagon on the map gets me 271 pixels on the direct diagonal, thank you Mr. Pythagoras)

Then math -- 271 / 30 = 9 units of the distance scale. 9 units = 9 weeks walking or 27 days by horse.

((I think before I must have measured farther in on the map))

Add in the 7 days for crossing the rift and the 1 day for getting to it and you are at 35 days by horse.

This is of course assuming everything goes correctly and you have all of the supplies and horses you need and you never run into any demons or pirates or brigands or broken bridges.

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9 years 9 months ago - 9 years 9 months ago #133900 by Mantel (sigma-j)
Still not sure how we're getting a lower number, especially since we used a longer route, but I'll defer to this ruling. If we calculated for as the crow flies, as you did, I could attribute it to the fact that we used 33 pixels instead of 30 as our scale, but we didn't go as the crow flies, so I have no idea what's going on here. We kind of need to know by our route, since IC, we're avoiding the Chaos Wastes and would need to resupply every so often in the various towns on the way.

I'll mess with it again and post when I get another estimate. I'll use your 30 pixel ruling.

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9 years 9 months ago #133903 by Mantel (sigma-j)
I have no idea what we're doing differently, I just did the same thing you described and got ~30 days.

Either way, there'll still be a bunch of days thrown in for good measure for mods and such, so as long as we're over 30 days, I don't think anyone will have a problem. Thank you for the rigorous answers, Joe!

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9 years 9 months ago #133905 by Gunnar Gunnarson (jhines0042)
Don't forget, that is a one way trip. Double your time if you want to return and then add as much time as you would like to stay there to accomplish your task.

Basically though it should be very rare that people travel to distant locations to accomplish things.

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