Comments on: n00b World Reorder, part 2

By: CHRIS

CHRIS — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:04:19 +0000

in azeroth the bending of light is not creating an optical ilusion. i dc/ed my self and atm is runing from northerned to as far south as i could and fell into a giant whole were the malstrom was suposed to exist i am atm below kalmindor and if infact was a ilusion i should be on the contenet and not below it as i am. it apears that on my charicter once below it there is no friction slowing my decent for i have been falling in a stright path to kalimdor and about in a 45 degree angle. from gravity that exsist below azeroth. wich is then implying that there is a large body of mass below azeroth that carys most of the gravity for such a thin world.

AND we under stand its just a game but it is very interesting trying to creat some scientific philosithy for somthing fake as it is and creat an understanding of how the game runs in uision with the laws of our phisic’s

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:30:23 +0000

These theories seem to be with intelligible thought and consideration behind them.

However, we must not forget that Azeroth was made by designers using a computer, and that Azeroth is nothing more than a fantasy world.
Azeroth is flat because the designers made it flat. They made it flat because they might not have had the time or resource to make an expansive ocean. Because what player would want to spend their time trying to cross the ocean instead of taking a boat/Zepplin?
As for stone/water elementals being set ablaze, and flammable inanimate objects being unaffected, that’s another designer thing. In Final Fantasy Unlimited anime, the waters of Wonderland have an amount of flammable mineral in them, causing the water to be flammable. This could be used for the normally flammable things found on earth, there could be certain minerals in Azeroth that dramatically affect the flammability of things.
Though I find it hard to believe that there could be so many different alternate realities/universes that are derivatives or coexistences of Earth, I must admit that I’ve been wrong before and think that such a thing just might be able to exist.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:09:59 +0000

The reason for this is because the game masters could not keep such a huge area on a single server. So in game the world is not technicly round, or even complete. But Lore-wise it would still be round, and obviously complete.

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By: Abranca

Abranca — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:15:49 +0000

I observed that the seas of Azeroth know no tides. The absence of tidal changes means that the moon of Azeroth, no matter if it rotates around the world or hops up and down, has apparently no mass. (Or, maybe, it might have a very limited mass negligible compared to Azeroths strong density and extraordinary gravity, so it causes no visible tidal changes.) If the moon has no mass, its movements can not be explained by gravity, nor by a juggling giant.

Also, the seas have no currents. On Earth the sea currents are mainly powered by the Earth’s rotation (if I am correct, that is). Seen from the North Pole, our globe rotates counter-clockwise. This makes the fluid oceans around the equator moving clockwise. (Various patterns in sea currents are caused by the continents blocking a simple clockwise equatorial drift.) As Azeroth has no currents, that means it does not rotate. One more circumstantial piece of evidence to suggest Azeroth is flat.