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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1926897" data-attributes="member: 9254">I believe your core is off because you're looking at steel skeleton construction.  I checked the empire state building; footprint vs height results in 8 million sq. ft while only 2 million sf is available for rent.   You have to deal with elevators, stairs, air shafts, access shafts, utility rooms (where do you store the brooms & mops), trash chutes, etc.    The Empire is a concrete & steel framed structure while Sharn will be rocks & magical construction.   Then you get into the reality of the city at war.  Beseiged, surrounded, it turns to internal farming.  IIRC, it takes about 1 acre to feed a person for a year.  The 211,000 people would require 211,000 acres of food or 9 billion square feet of food.  Doing a quick review of most city skylines, there's 2 or 3 competing for tallest, a half dozen or so at half the height, and hundreds that are less than a quarter the height of the tallest. (FYI on wall street 20% of the buildings are <8 stories)  By number, the 1/4 would be the norm so typical height would be 1250.  Assuming a proper construction with 11' of *interior* height and another 3' of stone flooring and you have 14'/floor.  Still we've still got 90 story buildings.  (On par with the Empire state.  Useful, that)Do the same with the base and you have something like 1200' diameter.  90 stories x pi x 600^2 = 10,1736,000 sf x 500 buldings = 50,868,000,000 sf.  Using the Empire's ratio of function vs. gross =12,717,000,000 sf.  Subtract 9 billion sf of farms = 3.7 billion sf.  Pull out 30% for govt/public usage = 2.6 billion sfAssume 15% for industry = 2 billion sfAssume around 10% for warehousing = 1.66 billion sfDivided amoung the 211,000 leaves about 7900sf.  Still a lot but lots less than the 27,000sf.</blockquote>

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