How big are 30 million square kilometres?

[Capivara]

Can someone compare it to other games maps? (Sorry for bad english)

[Henri]

It is all europe with a part of Russia and a part of middle east (Israel, Iran, etc...).

[Capivara]

So, the game map will be really huge, or just with a different way to measure it?

[Niinox]

30 square kilometers is 30 boxed (square) kilometers. It could be 10 by 3, or 5 by 6; just examples. Put in perspective, the Grand Theft Auto V map is about 40 square kilometers. SimCity's maps are 2 x 2 kilometers; thus making it 4 square kilometers.

[Duck]

Originally posted by 宮ヴィ:

30 square kilometers is 30 boxed (square) kilometers. It could be 10 by 3, or 5 by 6; just examples. Put in perspective, the Grand Theft Auto V map is about 40 square kilometers. SimCity's maps are 2 x 2 kilometers; thus making it 4 square kilometers.

except its not 30 square kilometers it's 30 million.

[Niinox]

Originally posted by The Duck:

Originally posted by 宮ヴィ:

30 square kilometers is 30 boxed (square) kilometers. It could be 10 by 3, or 5 by 6; just examples. Put in perspective, the Grand Theft Auto V map is about 40 square kilometers. SimCity's maps are 2 x 2 kilometers; thus making it 4 square kilometers.

except its not 30 square kilometers it's 30 million.

My bad. 30,000,000 (30million) square kilometers is an total area of 30 million square chunks each 1km by 1km.

30,000,000 squared (to get the root to which one would need to use to make an exact square with it) is 5477.225575051661.
Let's shorten that to 5477.2

To get that, you'd take 5477.2 and then multiply it by itself (5477.2x5477.2) to get 30,000,000 as a total area. That would take the total area and make it a box. One could also go with an area of, say, 1,000km by 3,000km to still get the exact 30,000,000 square kilometer area, however it would instead be a larger rectangle map instead of a square map. Let's now go to some examples.

Lord of the Rings Online was 30,000 miles square (173.21x173.21 miles), which comes to 48,280 square kilometers.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is 62,394 miles square (249.79x249.79 miles), which comes to 100,413 square kilometers.

Outerra, an engine developed to generate massive environments procedurally, has the Anteworld program which boasts a massive 510,000,000 miles square (22583.18x22583.18 miles) containment, which clocks in at 820,765,440 kilometers square; that's 820.765 million square chunks, each 1km by 1km.