Shemeska
Adventurer
It probably wasn't something that came to mind when they wrote up Sigil for 4e. They probably didn't consider the downstream ramifications of what it would mean for a 4e Sigil if things heavily associated with the city previously, but not in the city itself, didn't exist because they had never been a part of the 4e default cosmology. That and the world building aspect of the game doesn't particularly seem to be a priority to be addressed by 4e design.
Sounds like they didn't go into the specifics very much. There's nothing there that invalidates anything I said. A frequent gloomy drizzle in many parts of the city is what I meant to imply, not horrible thunderstorms.
WotC has never really done justice to demographics that make sense. The 4e population level for Sigil both doesn't match its 2e details, nor does it particularly make a ton of sense for the 4e city either. Way too light. I'm in agreement with you there.
This has been covered before.
They don't actually say at any point in the 4e MotP that the city's ring is closed. It has always been open, both in description and in artwork, and the 4e artwork clearly shows an open ring. "Torus" isn't being used in the strict, mathematical solid sense. They even used "torus" in the 2e descriptions at times, and the 4e description was probably dovetailing the same words (and given that I know they read through the 2e material before writing that section, it seems a reasonable assumption).
