Distance Conversion

[Xenuite]

What is a reasonable conversion rate for distances in EQ to real world distances?

For example, how many feet does 100 /loc points equate to?

[ghanja]

Up to and including DoN (Dragons of Norrath), the size would equate to roughly 350 square miles. Source: Maximum PC May 2005

[Drajor]

Interesting question! I could only come up with a really approximate way to calculate this.

Firstly we need a point of reference. Lets use the height of the human model.

Assumption: The human male model at the default size is 1.8m tall.

Now we need to make that relative to something in-game. I used a wall in Qeynos to eyeball where the top of the head reached. Recording my initial position (83.1, 309.7, 5.8 ) and warping upwards until my feet reached the point where my head started. I end up at the position (83.1, 309.7, 13.8 ). So I end up with 8:1.8 as the ratio. This is fairly rough though. Will be interested to see what others come up with.

[Zaela_S]

My understanding was that one unit of loc represents one foot. Puts most weapons around 1 to 4 feet long at their default size (probably as they are in the hands of a human?). Also that model size units are supposed to be approximately equivalent to loc, making humans 6 feet tall, wood and dark elves 5 feet, dwarves and halflings 4 feet, gnomes 3 feet, classic dragons 25 feet, etc.