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Population fail @ disco - Anonymous User - 09-02-2011
take a look at toledo -.-
18 million aye... very small, secret organisation
below ONE million would be close to be realistic
but toledo gets fixd with update anyways :cool:
Population fail @ disco - Kuze - 09-02-2011
But not everyone lives in metropolises, there are towns, villages etc...220million/capital planet is just unrealistic.
Population fail @ disco - Friday - 09-02-2011
Freelancer does need a population review - but it needs to be done properly by the development team - not by dubious wiki entries...
Population fail @ disco - Varok - 09-02-2011
' Wrote:Dude, stop expecting things to match anything near reality, realism or inRP justification.
Just go on writing that outcast fleet has twelve billion million sabres with krakens. Whats stopping you?
I think it actually has 12 billion sabres. All going "YALALLA" and "OLOLOLO" outside Malta and/or Gamma.
/sarcasm off
' Wrote:take a look at toledo -.-
18 million aye... very small, secret organisation
below ONE million would be close to be realistic
but toledo gets fixd with update anyways :cool:
Ugh, we're awaitng for that fix then. :tease:
Population fail @ disco - SpaceTime - 09-02-2011
We should also take into account the numbers of ships that Igiss states that they are fighting. I find them extremely low compared to planet populations.
Population fail @ disco - Shii - 09-02-2011
If we're gonna be that goddamn picky, comparing station sizes and planets in game I'm pretty sure it's not very unrealistic at all to assume that these planets, which likely have a diameter of less than a thousand kilometers, have total populations of 220 million.
Yes, I know that planet sizes are unrealistic however once again, freelancer will never be 'realistic'.
Of course, if the community can somehow come up with 'realistic' numbers to shove onto every planet (time which would be better off spent fixing and creating something a bit more useful imo) then go for it I say.
Or we could just accept that the planet has 220 million after all, as apparently, the original makers intended it to be.
Population fail @ disco - Anonymous User - 09-02-2011
thread is drifting away a bit anyways...
the point was that the vanilla numbers compared to disco numbers dun fit even a bit.
as already stated if you read throught the posts - the numbers were "fixd' to fit better - even FL creators made some RP fails:D
so for manhattan it works then - still some few fails but ,k - thats freelancer:D
Population fail @ disco - Kuze - 09-02-2011
' Wrote:the original makers intended it to be.
Ah yes the original makers...they intended many things, planned even more, screwed up much more and then released it...
Back to topic...I think the population of Manhattan should be around 20-25 billion. Just look at Earth now...nearly 7 billion people on it, and we are not even a proper space-faring race. Sure Sirians had only 800 years to populate the Sector, but they were far more superior to us in terms of technology and etc. And if we apply the population increase we have in the recent 2 centuries it is nothing extraordinary if Manhattan will have 15 or 20 + billion population in 819 A.S.
Population fail @ disco - Blodo - 09-02-2011
' Wrote:But not everyone lives in metropolises, there are towns, villages etc...220million/capital planet is just unrealistic.Err, I don't understand. Is it unrealistic because it is too small... or too big? Also, I would say on Manhattan everybody lives in metropolises, considering the fact that they didn't evolve from an agrarian society but rather were settled in planned cities from the very start. Traditional laws that govern human settlement locations and numbers don't really apply when you basically consider a whole planet being under one government which has undisputed power from the very start.
EDIT: Remember that sleeper ships had 50,000 people on board... so where would 25 billion come from statistically? Five hundred children per family for 800 years?
Anyway, the numbers posted on the wiki are NOT discovery lore. And I am pretty sure they never will be, hence they were removed from the planet pages. Those that weren't listed in infocards anyway. Population numbers are best left ambiguous.
Population fail @ disco - Kuze - 09-02-2011
220 million / such a major planet is not that much. And even the majority of the folks live in metropolises it is not a must.