--- Bryan Newell <bryann at bryann.net> wrote: > I've been working on version .2 of the map for the last three weeks or > so; > my apologies for how slow I'm going, Don't be ridiculous. > but the NCAA Tournament is a harsh mistress. I wondered what the attraction was! > My hope had been to get version .2 out before "Sethra Lavode", but I > doubt > this will happen. > > I am not ready to post version .2 yet, but I wanted to give you all a > status > update, and solicite your help on a few issues I'm having. > > 1. Starting with version .2 and until we hit version 1.0 (that is, a map > we > all are fairly happy with), I'm going to use a much simpler map style, > as > this will make changes easier to make. Great idea. ... > 1. "Dragon" > > I could not make head or tails of Vlad's marching path from Castle Black > to > Mount Drift. It seemed to me he marched nearly 900 miles in 3 days, > which > is ludicrous. ... > During those 7 days, he marched in the vicinity of 800 miles, which > works > out to about 7 miles per hour... still an awfully fast march but... > well, I don't know enough to call that impossible. At <http://www.vhtrc.org/mmt/2003/hunter-report.htm> you'll find a woman's course record for a 101.7-mile race: 24 hours 40 minutes. That's with superb training, aid stations, no pack, and severe pain. She wouldn't have done it again the following day. A march of 800 miles in 7 days is better than 3 days, but still impossible (unless the Jenoine modified human endurance, or a Dragaeran mile isn't an American mile, or something). ... > However, Brust's recent posting in which he said he can only think of a > single geographical mistake he's made has caused me to revisit this > issue. ... Uh, Steven? Could you possibly tell us what it was? Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html