Now an utter massive 64X map would be the equivalent of 2 16X maps wide and 2 16X maps high or 8 standard maps wide and 8 standard maps tall and if you fill in the grid you would have a land mass of 64 standard maps. It would be 8KM x 8KM on each side (5 square miles). If you go to the south west of a 16X map it should have the coordinates of 8192x8192.

As defined it can also be described as being the land mass of 4 4x maps being 2 4X maps wide and 2 4X maps high. On a standard map that same area would show 2048x2048 with the north west corner of both maps showing 0x0 or 1x1 if you could get into the corner.Ī 16X map would be 16 times the size of a standard map or would be 4 standard size maps across and 4 standard size maps high so if you filled in the grid it would have the land mass of 16 standard maps.

Also in the south east corner of the map the coordinates on the mini map should be around 4096x4096 at the extreme corner. It takes you twice as long to drive across the map either West to East or North to South if the map had a straight road. Other times these real to life maps are scaled somewhat so maybe they are showing a 4KM x 4KM area but fields and such are about half the real size but at the heart a base map for which every other map should be measured against is 2KM x 2KM (1.2 sq miles) and should be our reference at 1X in size.Ī 4X map would be two standard size maps wide and 2 standard size maps high at 4KM x 4KM so you can fit 4 standard 2KM x 2KM maps within its borders hence it is 4 times the size of a standard map or about 2.5 sq miles. This is often why true to life maps that represent a real area on a 1:1 scale often need to make sacrifices and add elements into the map that are not there in real life because the odds of having a farm store, at least one grain depot and a BGA all within 2KM of each other that includes farmland is going to be rather rare. A standard giants map is setup to represent a 2KM x 2KM square of land area. But now I think it is an attempted shorthand of the overall width and height of a map. I thought this was the case because modern Giants maps where twice as large as maybe the first Giants maps back in FS09 or FS11 or FS13 days. Folks, including myself from time to time have refereed to base Giants maps as 2X. 2X would be twice as big as something, 4X would be 4 times as big as something, etc. The X would typically represent that the map is a multiple of something else. We have issues with folks refer to map sizes with things like 2X, or 4X or 16X or 64X.

During my live streams of the 16X Nowhere Kansas map size came up alot so I want to interject a few general observations.

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