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Thread: World of Nossin (critique appreciated)

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    Quote Originally Posted by kacey View Post
    Looks good so far Riorlyne, it will be interesting to see how the climate turns out with those tall land masses.
    Thank you, Kacey! I'm wondering what effect they'll have too.

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    Looking good. Dang, I need to figure out how to use Wilbur one of these days...

    Oh, just FYI, Earth's land/water ratio is more like 70/30, not 50/50.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamond View Post
    Oh, just FYI, Earth's land/water ratio is more like 70/30, not 50/50.
    Thanks for the added bit of precision! I've been using a rounded ratio of land:water 1:2 because it's simpler for me to look at selected areas and see that the land selection is half the size of the sea selection, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to err on the side of slightly less land.

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    1 part of land for 2 parts of water. 33/66

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azelor View Post
    1 part of land for 2 parts of water. 33/66
    Yep! That's close enough to 30:70 for my quick calculations, I think. Nossin doesn't have to be exactly like Earth, though I do want it to have a similar climate, so there are definitely a lot of similarities.

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    Diamond misread your description as meaning it was half land and half sea rather than correctly as a ratio of one part land to two parts sea, hence his contrast to a 50/50 split. It's easy to do.* I had to read twice to see you were indeed talking about the land:water ratio. It may be clearer to use 1:2, rather than 1/2, as it is more immediately interpreted as a ratio, whereas fractional notation has other uses.

    * - I had to read the post twice to see that I did not need to make the same erroneous "correction" as Diamond did.

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    Aha! *hangs head in shame* Yeah, I meant percentage.


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