TT-square ?!

K_m_H · Post by **K_m_H** » 25 Mar 2005 12:00

Just a fun thing I tried…

I wanted to see how big one square in the game is.

I measured 1 TT-year to be 847,7 seconds. This gives that
every second of playing time 37.201,84 TT-seconds pass.

Next I set up a straight testtrack of 200 squares and let a Ginzu ‘A4’ run on it at it’s maximum speed of 80 mph. I timed it three times to be sure

1. 95,6 s 2. 95,2 s 3. 95,5 s

This gives an average time of 95,43 s that I know from above is
3550295,624 TT-seconds or 41 days 2 hours 11 minutes and 35.6 seconds....

SO.. the train covers a distance of 200 squares in 41 days travelling at 80 mph

This gives the size of the square to 394,5 miles or about 591,7 km

That is 155.612,3 square miles or 350.127,8 km^2

That is about the size of Germany that is 357.039,0 km^2

The large map is about 265x265 squares, that’s 70225 squares in total.

That gives the entire surface of the map to 24.587.724.760 km^2

That’s 24,5 BILLION km^2

May I remind you that the earths surface is 511.506.576 km^2 only half a billion.

So the TT-map is actually about 48 times larger than the earth.

Szappy · Post by **Szappy** » 25 Mar 2005 12:20

Hey, this is interesting!

Only, that you started your measurements on the most unrealistic part of the game, namely the time, which is obviously toooo fast for realistic play. So all of your figures deducted from that, are waaay off.
Look at the train sizes, to begin with, an average train with 5-6 wagons would be thousands of miles long...

DeletedUser21 · Post by **DeletedUser21** » 25 Mar 2005 13:03

and 1 passenger give you a lousy 2 bucks for traveling 1 square, witch is according to your calculations 591,7 km.

Man what a stingy people do live in the world of TT

Raichase · Post by **Raichase** » 26 Mar 2005 23:39

K_m_H wrote:So the TT-map is actually about 48 times larger than the earth.

Yet people keep asking for larger maps

That was an interesting read actually, very amusing. Cheers!

The Person · Post by **The Person** » 27 Mar 2005 00:26

Just goes to show how unrealistic the real world is.

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 27 Mar 2005 11:02

Otherwise, if you would take a size of a train carriage (+/- 25 meters) and use that for the distance of a tile (50x50 meters), the train is driving extremely slow to take days for a few tiles

K_m_H · Post by **K_m_H** » 28 Mar 2005 16:40

Yes anyway yo look at it it's unrealistic.. but who cares really, just a fun thing.

Mickeye · Post by **Mickeye** » 11 Apr 2005 15:31

Wow!

Great work!!! It's brilliant example of using brain in TT.

And of course scale factor in TT is wrong, but, really, who cares?

DeletedUser21 · Post by **DeletedUser21** » 11 Apr 2005 15:34

one office block is bigger than the village I live in

Downmaster · Post by **Downmaster** » 11 Apr 2005 15:46

One square fits 8.43 times the netherlands, think about that!

Downmaster

The Irish · Post by **The Irish** » 11 Apr 2005 15:59

yeah, but can max. generate 255 passengers

Downmaster · Post by **Downmaster** » 11 Apr 2005 16:35

Have you ever seen a powerplant being 30 times the size of Ireland? I bet you have!

(OK, last comparison for today)

Downmaster

d00mh4mm3r · Post by **d00mh4mm3r** » 04 May 2005 21:59

Hehe, my family's farm would be twice the size of germany then, HAHA. neat.

So long as no-one turns this into reality I think we can live with the 5 days it takes to get from one side of the station to the other. lol

cheers

The Person · Post by **The Person** » 05 May 2005 16:31

As I said, the real world is far too unrealistic (from a TT-addict's perspective).

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