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	Re: PiD square footage, realtor ethics
	Posted By: Godot	Date: 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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	PiD square footage, realtor ethics	Hopper	2/16/12 9:52 a.m.
	Re: PiD square footage, realtor ethics	Godot	2/16/12 10:28 a.m.

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