Truthsayer Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Can someone help me out with getting a grasp on megascale? I'm having a hard time seeing how big a kilometer is. What is the conversion equation from meters to miles? What is a comparable distance for km? I'm reading the FRED but is a km really the distance covering a city? 100 km a state? help me out here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Neilson Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Re: Distances Can someone help me out with getting a grasp on megascale? I'm having a hard time seeing how big a kilometer is. What is the conversion equation from meters to miles? What is a comparable distance for km? I'm reading the FRED but is a km really the distance covering a city? 100 km a state? help me out here. Why is the country that celebrates its declaration of independence from the UK every year the klast one to convert away from a measurement system based on a British king's appendages? A kilometer is 1,000 meters. It's about 60% to 2/3 of a mile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Archer Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Re: Distances Some of us are quite comfortable with metrics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Re: Distances Three kilometers is two miles. The size comparisons in the book aren't for one hex of that size, but several of that size are comparable. So a city isn't 2/3 of mile, but a city would be measured in units of that size. If you're moving 10 one kilometer hexes per phase, you'll be across town in no time flat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmadanNaBriona Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Re: Distances Why is the country that celebrates its declaration of independence from the UK every year the klast one to convert away from a measurement system based on a British king's appendages? A kilometer is 1,000 meters. It's about 60% to 2/3 of a mile. Dude, we tried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Raven Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Re: Distances Well, if we Americans wanted to switch to metric, we'd have to pay to have all our road signs replaced, not to mention replace, move and add to the number of markers we have along our roads. Do to that, each of our state representitives would probably have to not vote to get a pay raise for themselvers for a few terms. God bless America (we could use the help). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Re: Distances Actually, a kilometer is almost exactly 5/8ths of a mile. from: http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/length_conversion.php 100 miles (statute) is equal to 160.93 kilometers. & 800 kilometers is equal to 497.10 miles (statute). Also, from the same main site regarding speed: 10 meters per second is equal to 22.37 miles (statute) per hour. So a character with SPD 6 and Running 10" can almost do 45 mph non-combat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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