Scale was RE: AC2 was RE: [MUD-Dev] Total Annilation of Downtime

[Marc Fielding]

[Brian Hook]

> People rarely noticed, and what it did was give a sense of
> massiveness to everything.  It also gave you a sense of speed,
> which was important.  As speeds have decreased to become more
> realistic, games have felt slower and players have complained.

Intuitively, wouldn't a *smaller* scale give a greater sense of
speed than a larger scale? ("Wow! I just ran a ten second 'mile'!") 
Actual speeds being equal, of course.

Just thought of an obvious cause of in-game scale problems:

		    really short designers.  ;)

-Marc





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