Alright, let’s start with what we know, and compare Nimbus to Bronze.
The Bronze Sea currently has 33 islands, including sky islands but not including the Pelion Rift. Add in the 5 islands coming in Empires, and it’s up to 38. And we know it will also be getting a volcano island, Fort Castrum, an island northeast of the Jaws for Hallbjorn to spawn on, and a Kingdom Island.
This means the Bronze Sea will have at least 42 islands. That’s a crazy number! That’s more islands than Arcane Adventures ever had in all three of its seas combined. So if Bronze has that many, we can assume Nimbus will be similar, right? Not necessarily, we also need to factor in how much space the seas themselves have.
As you can see here, the Nimbus Sea is significantly larger, about twice as much. So does this mean Nimbus will have twice as many islands too? Well, it could, but the answer is again “not necessarily.” If Vetex wanted more islands, he could just fit more in the sky, especially since this is the Nimbus Sea and people have been expecting to get a lot of sky islands. This doesn’t seem like a valid reason to drastically enlarge the ocean. There are other valid reasons he may have done this, however:
- It could be because he wants the Nimbus Sea’s islands to be, on average, much bigger than the Bronze Sea’s, and so he needs more room to do that.
- Or, what I think is probably the case, is that Vetex wants the islands to be significantly more spaced out than in Bronze. This is to adjust for the fact that we have much faster ships now. If he kept the distance between islands roughly the same for all 6 seas, while our ship kept getting better and better, we could probably go between islands in no time flat. There would hardly be any sailing.
I do think the Nimbus Sea will probably have more islands than Bronze, but not by a huge amount. A lot of them might also be in the sky. Vetex said he wants to add PvE skyship combat, and there might even be skyships that we can save and customize in the shipyard menu, so that clues us in to the fact that Nimbus will probably have a lot of sky islands, or at least a more involved sky area.
With the extra sky islands, and islands on average being bigger now thanks to builders, there’s no need to give the ocean even more islands than Bronze. The extra space is probably so that the gap between islands can be wider, accounting for fast ships like Brigs.
Anyway, what do you think? For everyone’s convenience I’ll leave a poll, but I would prefer a reply to the topic with more detailed opinions.
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