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Re: PiD square footage, realtor ethics
Posted By: GodotDate: 2/16/12 10:28 a.m.

In Response To: PiD square footage, realtor ethics (Hopper)

: Reading through the archives, I noticed the "4,000,000 square feet"
: reference from Bungie's press release. As I'm knee-deep in the dead PiD
: maps right now, I wondered how accurate that statement is.

: The 25 maps in the full game contain a total of 11,255 sectors that aren't
: solid rock. (Basically, this counts all non-black squares from the sector
: map image.) A sector is roughly, I don't know, eight feet across? Nine at
: the most? That's a max of 81 square feet per sector, which gives us 11,255
: * 81 = 911,655 square feet.

: That's all? Under a million square feet? You'd need THREE more full games'
: worth of levels, PLUS the demos, to reach Bungie's "over 4
: million" number. Somebody revoke their RealtorŪ license for false
: advertising!

: Maybe they're counting the walls, you say, like measuring the outside
: perimeter of a house to estimate the square footage inside. Maybe nobody's
: found the secret shovel that lets you dig your own passageways. Well, each
: level is 32 x 32 sectors in size. The outer edges are always walls, so you
: only get 30 x 30 as usable space, but we'll be generous. Maybe those
: hallways are bigger than they look too: let's bump up our estimate to 10
: feet on a side. 32 * 32 * 100 sq. ft./sector = 102,400 square feet per
: level. At 25 levels, that gives 2,560,000 square feet.

: Even cheating the numbers heavily in Bungie's favor, we're sill not close to
: Merchandise Mart numbers. Are they counting unexplored catacombs we
: teleported past, somewhere in the 2000m between Don't Get Poisoned and Ok,
: Who Wants Some? Did they plan to ship a PiD 20/10 level pack with the
: missing square footage? Demand the tru7h!

Heh. With this and the historically inaccurate weapons we should be asking for our money back! ;)

Cheers
Hamish

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