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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1655468" data-attributes="member: 891">16,327 per square mile.Or... 800,000 people in a 7 by 7 mile zone.Seoul Korea, 12 million people, about 230 square miles = 52,174 people per mile.I've lived in both, so I have a feel for both.The first question is not relevant to how I experience these cities.It does not matter if I am aware of it, as 'God' writes adventures for me, it fills in the place with a whole pack of NPCs, or an absurd number of NPCs - so many than when I walk the streets I cannot help being bumped about by the press of bodies...As GM, 'God' is the one working with the numbers, the one for whom that number says just what sort of feel to convey to me as one of the PCs.So, as for the second of those questions, it's not a matter of how real it makes it feel, but the density of these two cities has a major impact in how daily life works in them. I feel that density everyday I spend in either city, I am constantly aware in Seoul that there is no concept of body space or privacy, and I am constantly aware in San Francisco that I live in a city who's people are not culturally well adjusted to how densely packed in they are, and yet have no idea just how good they have it on a global scale.I am constantly aware of the stresses around me, because they constantly impact the way people in these two cities behave.--------------------------------------------------------------------------In designing Fahla I haven't started by looking at total populations of cities, nations, or continents. I look only at density, and figure I will know population at some later point when I do the maps.Density is what affects daily life after all. The great desert where you can go hundreds of miles and see only one person is going to impact you very differently from the streets of Coinic, heart of the Lomyrian trading empire, where you will see thousands everyday in the same neighborhood.It's density that tells me that, not total population.</blockquote>

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