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Originally posted by Alf
Also Yahoo doesn't accept spam mail so anyone with a yahoo address didn't get their mail yet.
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That's weird; I got mine. It didn't even get sent to my Bulk Mail folder; it was in my normal inbox! The power of Odd...
BIG EDIT: Hang about...
I know I'm coming across as a killjoy and a nitpicker, but that map cannot possibly be accurate (although it is very pretty).
According to AE, Abe and the other five walked from the Monsaic Lines to Necrum in a day. Judging by all footage I've seen of them, Mudokons walk at the same speed as humans. Most humans can walk two miles in one and a half hours (I can; and I consider myself an average human).
We don't know exactly when Abe set off from the Monsaic Lines, or when he arrived at Necrum Mines, but as they set off it looks around 8:00am ish. And we are told that they arrived after dinner time, so we can estimate that to be around 5pm.
So, using those estimates, it took 9 hours to walk from Monsaic to Necrum. That means they must have walked a distance of around 12 miles. And that's maximum; that doesn't even take into account that they must have stopped to rest occasionally.
If you get out a ruler and measure the distances on the screen, you'll see that (assuming the distance between Monsaic and Necrum is 12 miles as the crow flies; it is - just - possible to walk in a straight line from Monsaic to Necrum without cutting through dangerous Paramonia), you can calculate that 0.375 cm (which we'll round to 4 mm for the sake or argument) on the screen (on the left-hand-most map) equals one mile.
Measuring the 'boxes' (showing the areas explored in each game) on the leftmost map and comparing their width on the middle map (tricky, yes), and using these new measurements to estimate the size of Mudos in the middle map, shows that Mudos is roughly 200 miles in length. Fair enough... as we've been told it's a small continent. But 200 miles! That makes it even smaller than Britain! And look at the size of Mudos compared to the rest of Oddworld on the right-most map. Oddworld is supposed to be 10 times the size of Earth, but these maps say it's not so.