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Originally Posted by Mournblade
Science has no place in this thread! Tyria is a land steeped in magic, so you cannot assume that the normal laws of physics will apply in the same way.
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Is the world of Tyria flat or spherical?
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Originally Posted by Anarion Silverhand
I see that you fail to provide a counter argument and instead reject my explanation by asking me to have some fun. I did writing my argument. I had more fun than I would have had saying "lawl flat, oh and I can't provide a valid argument as we cannot assume that laws of physics apply in the tyrian world, which makes my suggestion a guess and a guess only. lawl"
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As for a counter argument... I'm not arguing the validity of your statement. Coming from the same science-based world that you do, I find it very straightforward and logical. But considering that Tyria isn't a world like our own, I just think that if you are going to participate in a whimsical thread like this, that you would come up with something more clever than facts any of us could pull from our 4th grade science book.
And thats how we bridge from GW1 to GW2...Our characters sail off the edge of the world in a boat with Gwen at the end of GW:EN, thus killing them all, and that explains why they arnt transfered into GW2.
Anyways, It would be neat to see a flat world...although a square would make more sense, or else it might run out of water due to it falling off the edge.
Anyways, It would be neat to see a flat world...although a square would make more sense, or else it might run out of water due to it falling off the edge.
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Originally Posted by Mournblade
Tyria isn't a world like our own, I just think that if you are going to participate in a whimsical thread like this, that you would come up with something more clever than facts any of us could pull from our 4th grade science book.
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Originally Posted by Onarik Amrak
It's a dodecahedron, sheesh, isn't it obvious?
Seriously, the GW2 Logo seems to imply that it's a sphere. |
i think that tyria is a tall sphere. there seems to be little change in climate, though there are seasons, so there must be a slight curve.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...aidean_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bratislava
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...hicago_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...nburgh_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...lasgow_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histori...n%2C_Ontar io
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...g_Kong_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Jerusalem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Largo_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...bourne_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northfi...esota_timeline
and finally
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Timeline
What do all these have in common or are to be in common? Space Rockets! This may seem like a coincidence but it is in fact logical and thus by logic in 200 years time (i.e. Guild Wars 2) They will have SPACEROCKETS. They can then fly off and see what shape the Tyria really is!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bratislava
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...hicago_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...nburgh_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...lasgow_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histori...n%2C_Ontar io
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...g_Kong_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Jerusalem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Largo_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...bourne_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northfi...esota_timeline
and finally
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Timeline
What do all these have in common or are to be in common? Space Rockets! This may seem like a coincidence but it is in fact logical and thus by logic in 200 years time (i.e. Guild Wars 2) They will have SPACEROCKETS. They can then fly off and see what shape the Tyria really is!
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Originally Posted by Willow O Whisper
if this isen't spherical i don't know what is.
thx Milennin for posting this great picture on the forums. |
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Originally Posted by ME, First Page of Topic
The global appearance of Tyria for the GW2 logo is probably an effect. If you look at that image, you can see the full curves of the globe and you can't even see all of Tyria. If Tyria was a globe and followed the size rules in the GW2 logo, then Tyria takes up more than half the globe, leaving little room for Cantha, Elona, and possible other continents.
Then again, Elona could be scaled a bit, and Cantha could be on the other side of the globe. The maps in Guild Wars think 2 dimensionally, with "south south south" equalling Cantha. In real life "south south south" equals through Antarctica and then to the other face of the planet. Though if that was the case, we'd see considerable climate change, especially around the Battle Isles since it is sort of the halfway mark (with it leaning a bit closer to Cantha) between Tyria and Cantha. |
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About the water flowing? Tyria is really a microscopic ball of grime on a sink. When people of the "Greater Universe" turn on the sink, the water comes down (on one hand you'd think, due to our size, the water would be so big it'd crush us. On the other hand, we're so small that to us waterdrops are widely spaced apart and seen particle by particle).
Unlimited water.
...until the flat world of the "greater universe" runs out of water!
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Originally Posted by ropes782
In terms of climates/weather/night/day, GW is a video game...seriously programing in actual days and climate changes and crap like that would make the programmers go crazy! its just alot of work.
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As to Tyria being flat or spherical, going from north to south the climate changes from a moderate in presearing Ascalon to subtropical in Kryta to desert and back to subtropical again in Cantha. That does suggest a spherical world.
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