Calypso - a better look?

[Encicra]

I made a full length post with other screenies about it on RP Forums right after it happened.

http://www.realityport.com/forum/gen...+quest+astorid

[AkiranBlade]

Originally Posted by Encicra

I made a full length post with other screenies about it on RP Forums right after it happened.

http://www.realityport.com/forum/gen...+quest+astorid

When you were on the Club NEVERDIE map, were you near the north or the south? It seems to me that where you come in on the Amethera map that the CND map is placed below the Eudoria map.

[Encicra]

Yes I believe they are overlapped aswell.

I was much more north then south. I took off north because it was shorter, and I did run to the end of the server to the north as well.

Could be part of the reason the east section of amethera hasn't been opened.

[Lorfat]

Originally Posted by Sirhc

I have this picture set up as my background on my computer at work. It looks like land to the North and to the East. I cannot tell if either are Amethera though.

Thanks to Miss LT for uploading it:

Click to enlarge

Interesting... it could be the 3rd continent located north of Corith, as mentioned in the description of Gurum dal Camp.

[PkmX]

So mix all the stuffs together, it seems MA use Amethera as base map and put Eudoria in NE part and CND south of Eudoria, which are inaccessible from Amethera. When you fly up to CND, you actually only get teleported to where it's located on Amethera and just show you different container / location you have.

So it will be interesting to see where CP is located ...

BTW, if you come from Troy to the "smile" and swim to the south edge of Eudoria, charge your TP chip and you will find you can click on some areas on Amethera, however you cannot teleport there ..

[Encicra]

Yea they aren't connected in anyway.

Different servers, I'm pretty sure ND said that CND was on its own server and thats why when CND use to crash you would sometimes login to a differnt server and appear on one of the land masses.

[Violet]

Originally Posted by Doer

Well, there's still the issue with the polar region being in the West. Nice one, MA.

Maybe Calypso's magnetic north has drifted off by 90 degrees? :O

More likely that Calypso's axis of rotation is different to that of Earth's. Its just that the maps we use are incorrect. Just like we have true north and magnetic north on Earth maps. So what you see as West on the map is in fact magnetic North and Calypso's axis of rotation is similar to Uranus. This would allow for snow to the west, because this part of Calypso would never see the sun. It would also allow for the lack of night/day cycles we get on Calypso.

AG already touched on this earlier in this thread too. Its something i would really like MA to work on to make the planet more realisitic.

Originally Posted by AlphaGeek

Hmmm.. looking at the bigger picture and where the colder climes are on planet, one might deduce that the magnetic pole axis runs perpendicular to the axis of rotation...

Either that or we gots us an East Pole...

...or somethin'

AG

[Doer]

Originally Posted by Violet

More likely that Calypso's axis of rotation is different to that of Earth's. Its just that the maps we use are incorrect. Just like we have true north and magnetic north on Earth maps. So what you see as West on the map is in fact magnetic North and Calypso's axis of rotation is similar to Uranus. This would allow for snow to the west, because this part of Calypso would never see the sun. It would also allow for the lack of night/day cycles we get on Calypso.

AG already touched on this earlier in this thread too. Its something i would really like MA to work on to make the planet more realisitic.

Well naturally that's what it would imply if the magnetic North was off by 90 degrees and the arctic is to the West: maps oriented to magnetic North. That seems strange for a planet settled from space, but is one way MA could explain their goofy terrain design.

That wouldn't prevent night and day cycles, though (or at least light and dark, i don't know if you'd call a 1/2 year of light a "day", and that's what the poles would get). The only way to achieve that more or less permanently is to have a satellite whose period of rotation and revolution are the same, with a shared axis for both. That's the case for Earth's moon, and is due to tidal lock.

It would also make for awful weather patterns even more extreme than the four-hour day would indicate due to the extreme polar seasonal fluctuations. In short, it would probably be a really unpleasant place to live.

[Violet]

It was the Moon i was thinking of when i mentioned the permanent days/nights, but couldnt think how to explain it, glad you did Doer

The bigest problem is that MA have come up with a map, then changed it, amended it again and again without a great deal of thought beyond artistic licence. I would love to see a redesigned map of Calypso with everything making sense which ever rotation the planet has.

[Redfrog]

I thought Calypso rested on the backs of four elephants which are standing on the shell of a huuuuge turtle (sex unknown) as it swims through the interstellar void?