The Crew: Working out the Scale of the Map

[Kingking10]

Hey everyone.

I thought I might have a crack at working out what the scale of the USA in The Crew is using math ('cause who doesn't like math?), and the asnwer I got was pretty crazy.

So, from what I've worked out, in The Crew, it takes about 40 minutes to drive from one side of the USA to the other. In real life, it takes about 4 days to cross the USA. So, from this, we need to convert both of these into minutes. Now The Crew time is already in minutes, so we just need to convert the real life time. 4 days is equal to 96 hours, which is equal to 5,760 minutes. Now we chuck these numbers in a ratio and we get 40:5,760. This can be simplfied to 1:144.

So, the scale of The Crew is 1:144, right?

Wrong.

We need to take into account that, in The Crew, you'd be barreling down the highway at an average of about 200km/h. To make it a more realistic speed, we should half this. This produces an average of 100km/h. Now, because we've halved the average speed, we double the time it takes to drive across the USA, which brings The Crew time to 1 hour 20 minutes. We change this to minutes, and it produces 80 minutes. Now we put this into a ratio and we get a ratio of 80:5,760. We can then simplify this to 1:72.

So, it's gotta be right now that we've accounted for a realistic speed?

Nope.

Now we add in the timein real life spent sleeping and generally not driving. Let's assume that each in each of the 4 days, 12 hours of each day is spent driving and the other 12 hours are not. This brings us to a total of 48 hours, or 2 days. We now take the 48 hours and turn that into minutes, which gives us 2,880. We now chuck this into the ratio, and we now get a ratio of 80:2,880. As usual, we simplify it and it gives us a ratio of 1:36.

So, now we've account for realistic speed and time spent not driving in real life, we should have our answer now, right? Right?

Yep, we do.

Thanks to advanced mathamatics, I've now concluded that the scale of The Crew's USA compared to the real life USA is 1:36. Or there abouts. It's still an estimate because we haven't used the prober times and speeds, but it's close enough.

If you find any problems with my calculations, or just have a general problem with this article, feel free to leave your problem in the comments.

Thanks for reading this article and I hope you enjoyed it.

EDIT: Turns out the above answer is incorrect. Thanks to Seshins, I've reworked the entire equation and I get a ratio of 5000:9,857,306. Simplfied, this is 2500:4,928,653. This number, unfortunately, still isn't correct (because this number includes the area for Alsaka and Hawaii), but it's as close as I can get. I'll continue to work on this problem over the next few weeks, but for now, this is what the answer is.

[ICE-Logix]

And now calculate in the mess the launch is and the time ittakes to repair the damage and actually get "on the road"

[HORIZONS]

Im not very good at maths but.

The crew land area is 1900km2 right? So if you multiply 1900km2 by 36 you get a land area of 68400km?

But the US land area is 2 million square km. So would yout estimate be off in that regard?

Like i said im not the best at maths so genuinley don't know.

[Fink]

Originally posted by ICE-Logix:

And now calculate in the mess the launch is and the time ittakes to repair the damage and actually get "on the road"

I consulted my crystal ball and the answer is 7.

[Veggie.Dinosaur]

i sense no life here JK great work though

[yung box]

That's a nice thread, but you know what it isn't?

My preload.

[ICE-Logix]

Originally posted by Bxx:

That's a nice thread, but you know what it isn't?

My preload.

Agreed, but something to do while we wait until someone ges a clue..

[Barricade]

I drove across the US in 2 and a half days.

[Cherry]

Your maths skills work, but the pre-load doesn't.

[WykedInsanity]

i drove from north florida back to wisconsin in real life last december in r eal life in1 8 hours non-stop...you wanna do that in a game?

[WykedInsanity]

darn keys my one key is random today

[WykedInsanity]

itys a n-guage race game basicly.. yeah train mode the coal train

[Barricade]

San Diego to Georgia with two kids. 1st stop at Austin Tx, the next somewhere in Louisiana (Although we could've kept going, it would've been EARLY morning by the time we got there).

[WykedInsanity]

i stopped for gas only and after that drive i had a stroke xmas eve not too fun eh cuz my bloods mollasses unun
uyup was on blood thinners then too alot enuff to kill a horse

[Barricade]

Originally posted by ITS wykedinsanity:

i stopped for gas only and after that drive i had a stroke xmas eve not too fun eh cuz my bloods mollasses unun

Oh wow man. Can't beat that. Hopefully this xmas eve you'll be doing better?

[WykedInsanity]

only worse trip was my 1993 vacation drive my wife planned out
took basicly almost same ruoute as national lampoons vacation till dodge coity at least lol@ 14 hour drives through mountains