Town size

The majority of screen shots I've seen are of battle situations or just show a couple of houses. So I'm wondering, how big are the towns/outposts/camps?

Most of the cities are pretty large. There are multiple levels and bridges as well. You could probably even get lost in post searing Ascalon if you dont know what you are doing. For the other outposts and towns, they can get pretty small. Barradin Estate is only a tiny rectangle area. So they generally range all over the scale.

mostly outdoor camps.

do not expect to go inside buildings to shop or outfit.

having said that everything is nicely accessable for what you want

took me a couple hours to figure out everything in Lion's Arc and not get lost....lol

Where is lions arch???

After the dwarven missions, which are after the missions with Rurik, which are the first missions from seared Ascalon... unless this changed/changes.

Lol just another game where you will be lost for the first few days possibly, but before you know it, your asking yourself how you ever got lost in the first place.