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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8551095" data-attributes="member: 42856">At the city level it's like &quot;Sharn is, say, London-sized, but it's also miles-high, so if it has 200,000 inhabitants there is no way the street are bustling with activity, and if it has 2 or 5 millions inhabitants, then all of Breland's population (4.3 millions) is in Sharn, with&nbsp; no-one left outside to populate the other cities (or to do farming to feed them, given that they don't all rely on magic to create food). So a fix commonly suggested is &quot;have Breland 43m inhabitants, Sharn 2, and everything is fine&quot;.The density problem is &quot;if we assume the population and size, it really means that when you go from Vathirond to Starilaskur, you'll travel a month on foot without meeting another humanoid&quot;, which is certainly a solution but is certainly extreme in the Point of Light way (and for example, who would mind the 20,000 Cyran refugees if they just settled hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement ? They'd be more than welcome by local lords as were the peasants after the Great Plague, to cultivate the large stretch of land they have with nobody on it&quot;.More detailed criticism have been made saying that the &quot;early industrial feel&quot; of the dragonmarked houses requires some population to support it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8551095, member: 42856"] At the city level it's like "Sharn is, say, London-sized, but it's also miles-high, so if it has 200,000 inhabitants there is no way the street are bustling with activity, and if it has 2 or 5 millions inhabitants, then all of Breland's population (4.3 millions) is in Sharn, with no-one left outside to populate the other cities (or to do farming to feed them, given that they don't all rely on magic to create food). So a fix commonly suggested is "have Breland 43m inhabitants, Sharn 2, and everything is fine". The density problem is "if we assume the population and size, it really means that when you go from Vathirond to Starilaskur, you'll travel a month on foot without meeting another humanoid", which is certainly a solution but is certainly extreme in the Point of Light way (and for example, who would mind the 20,000 Cyran refugees if they just settled hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement ? They'd be more than welcome by local lords as were the peasants after the Great Plague, to cultivate the large stretch of land they have with nobody on it". More detailed criticism have been made saying that the "early industrial feel" of the dragonmarked houses requires some population to support it. [/QUOTE]

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