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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7877065" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>mil figure comes from</p><p>The rationalize perspective is good & all, but it goes back to the kind of "because reasons" & "$organization could do x but don't" type stuff the OP & others mentioned. You can't justify all the ubiquitous superfriends organizations & power brokers that seemingly exist in every gas station sized or larger town yet do nothing to solve the problems of waterdeep without changing them to actually<em> do </em>things. That might be great if the emerald enclave* took it upon themselves to manage sanitation everywhere & the harpers* took it upon themselves to provide Expanse type <a href="https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Basic_Assistance" target="_blank">basic</a> in many places... but nobody is doing those things & there's no reason to because the economy is not advanced enough & still pretty much a manorial economy. </p><p></p><p>Also keep in mind that Waterdeep is ~5.25 square miles in size while the greater london area & inner/outer london where that 1.9 mil figure comes from is something like 115 times that size at 607 square miles. If you put population densities 10x todays mumbai/manilla in that 5.25 square mile block you don't get Charles Dickens' London... you get the worst overpopulated dystopian nightmare ever imagined. Waterdeep only needs a few tens of thousands to get that kind of density because the city is not as large & making the wards that size turns it into something else even more nonsensical because many of the wards don't make sense as disparate borough sized cities. </p><p></p><p>*I just picked two factions at random</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 7877065, member: 93670"] mil figure comes from The rationalize perspective is good & all, but it goes back to the kind of "because reasons" & "$organization could do x but don't" type stuff the OP & others mentioned. You can't justify all the ubiquitous superfriends organizations & power brokers that seemingly exist in every gas station sized or larger town yet do nothing to solve the problems of waterdeep without changing them to actually[I] do [/I]things. That might be great if the emerald enclave* took it upon themselves to manage sanitation everywhere & the harpers* took it upon themselves to provide Expanse type [URL='https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Basic_Assistance']basic[/URL] in many places... but nobody is doing those things & there's no reason to because the economy is not advanced enough & still pretty much a manorial economy. Also keep in mind that Waterdeep is ~5.25 square miles in size while the greater london area & inner/outer london where that 1.9 mil figure comes from is something like 115 times that size at 607 square miles. If you put population densities 10x todays mumbai/manilla in that 5.25 square mile block you don't get Charles Dickens' London... you get the worst overpopulated dystopian nightmare ever imagined. Waterdeep only needs a few tens of thousands to get that kind of density because the city is not as large & making the wards that size turns it into something else even more nonsensical because many of the wards don't make sense as disparate borough sized cities. *I just picked two factions at random [/QUOTE]
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