xwormwood Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 The map needs some more corrections. Just looked into it after i always felt that the distances between german cities in the west and the east on the SC2-map seemed a bit faulty. With wikipedia i looked for the coordinate of the following cities: Berlin: 52°31N - 13°24E Essen: 51°27N - 07°01E Königsberg: 54°44N - 20°29E Warsaw: 52°13N - 21°02E Paris: 48°51N - 02°20E Moscow: 55°46N - 37°40E Oslo: 59°54N - 10°45E Stockholm: 59°19N - 18°4E Lisbon: 38°43N - 9°10W Valencia: 39°28N - 0°22W Than i took a little freeware-tool to calculate linear-distances between two points on the map (which considered the terrestrial-bending as well): Berlin-Essen: 443 km Berlin-Königsberg: 524 km Berlin-Warsaw: 530 km Königsberg-Warsaw: 261 km Königsberg-Essen: 956 km Königsberg-Moscow: 1095 km Paris-Essen: 461 km Oslo-Stockholm: 431 km Lisbon-Valencia: 774 km After this i used my old school-ruler to read how many centimeters (yeah-yeah, i know, i know) SC2 used between these two points (granted: not the best way, but a start) in 1600x1200: Berlin-Essen: approx. 12 cm Berlin-Königsberg: approx. 17 cm Berlin-Warsaw: approx. 17 cm Königsberg-Warsaw: approx. 5,5 cm Königsberg-Essen: approx. 23 cm Königsberg-Moscow: approx. 28 cm Paris-Essen: approx. 12 cm Oslo-Stockholm: approx. 11 cm Lisbon-Valencia: approx. 16 cm If the eastern europan map with Berlin-Königsberg (524 km / 12 cm) and Berlin-Warsaw (530 km / 12 cm) would be correct (and it is not!), than one cm on the screen would represent approx. 31 km. Taking this ratio for the other distances the map would need to be much bigger: If Berlin-Warsaw = Berlin-Königsberg we would need the following corrections: Berlin-Warsaw: no correction nescessary Berlin-Königsberg: no correction nescessary Oslo-Stockholm: approx. +1 cm Berlin-Essen: approx. + 2 cm Paris-Essen: approx. + 2 cm Königsberg-Warsaw: approx. +3 cm Königsberg-Essen: approx. +7 cm Königsberg-Moscow: approx. +7 cm Lisbon-Valencia: approx. +8 cm If on the other hand Paris-Essen (1 cm = approx. 38,5 km) would be correct (and this seems quite a bit more realistic) than we would need these corrections Paris-Essen: no correction nescessary Berlin-Essen: no correction nescessary Königsberg-Moscow: no correction nescessary Oslo-Stockholm: approx. -1 cm Königsberg-Warsaw: approx. +1,5 cm Königsberg-Essen: approx. + 2 cm Berlin-Königsberg: approx. -3 cm Berlin-Warsaw: approx. -3 cm Lisbon-Valencia: approx. +4 cm Looking at the probably nescessary changes the more appropriate cm/km-rate seems to be Paris-Essen. Sorry for the bad english, any miscalculations and the amateurish way to calculate the in-game distances. But these eastgerman distances are wrong, and this is annoying enough to bring such a nitwit like me to waste his sunday afternoon producing scribblings like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dispalor Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 Deutsche Gründlichkeit, hm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retributar Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 xwormwood! I hope that your investigation's will be implemented as a correction in future patches!. You are the 1st-one that i am aware of that has brought up this subject matter!,...good show!!!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hugo Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I want a bigger U.S.A. on the default map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaoJah Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I agree with you that the map is totally off. It doesn't even LOOK right, does it ? I can only hope that they did this on purpose, so that eastern Germany is bigger then in reality, so that the Russians have a harder time capturing Berlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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