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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kirin'Tor" data-source="post: 1925277" data-attributes="member: 17624">Well, I trust you math skills...maybe I can extend the math to help!First, I assume at least half of every tower, is taken up by shops, inns, meeting halls (etc. with consumer areas) and of course, like a trump building, a grand entrance floor. Many of these areas would also have multiple floors or double (or even triple, quadruple, or more) height celings.So, lets call that 45% of every tower. That makes for 11bil sq feet ...thus every person in Sharn has 54k square feet. Still too much. Now, in an average city, 30% of the buildings, in some direct way, relate directly to teh oversight & maintenence of the city in a non-consumer way. (Govt., Sanitation, Police, Fire, etc.) Sharn, as an industralized magic city, would probably have all of these as well. So, if we take 30% of all the space in Sharn  away first, and then take the 55% non-living space factor, we 37k sqft a person. Closer, but no cigar.Ok...so Sharn has all these bridges and walkways connecting everything: looking at the pics, I'd guess every 10 floors has a bridge going though it. Lets call that another 15% non-living space. That leaves 27k per person. Still way too high.Industry...things still have to be made, and Sharn is no excpetion. magical factories may be smaller, but forges & the like are still pretty big. A quick goole gave me the figure of 11% of a large cities population working in factorys in that same city.If we can assume that for every person in sharn that works in a 'factory' (23k of them) has at least a 10x10 area to themselves (average, soem bigger, some smaller), and every 20 of them have a managment\meeting\work-related area of approx 400 sq feet, then every 20 factory workers take up approx 2500 sq ft. Then we can eliminate 2.8 million sqfeet for factories. That honestly didn't affect the short notation of the space per person (still at 27k a person)..but it felt good to work with real numbers for a second.Well, so far the numbers go like this, in case anyone wants to continue trying.29 Billion in Raw Space:-2.8 Million Industry Space-30% Core Space-30% Govt & City Maintenence-60% Non-Living Space (Including Walkways, Resturants, Trump Rooms, etc.)And that leaves 27k per person. The average american has 718sq.ft. living space per person, plus soem yard...we do have to remember that that 27k includes the 'yard', since they don't have a normal one.One theory to try investigating: what percentage of buildings in, say LA or Miami (or somewhere else really commercial) are stores\boutiques\food\nails\etc, etc...maybe 90% of every tower is just one big mall!!...that was fun, thanks Rel <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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