Okay we know there are six continents and between them they take up a fair bit of space; we know that because we can see them there on the map. We also know that between the eastern and western continental groups there are a lot of help, orientation, academic and corporate islands. Also west of the western continental group we’ll find lots of private islands; we know that because if we zoom in on any area of ocean we invariably find ourselves looking down on someone’s island. If however we zoom back out much more than about 20% the island disappears taking with it any ability to view the relationship between island and continents. So it’s been a bit difficult getting an idea of just how many islands there are, how densely packed they are and how far they spread, until now that is.
The latest SL client version allows us to view the islands even at full stretch. This means for the first time we can see just how many islands are out there and how far they extend in comparison to the continents. It has to be said the process does take a little while, but if you pick an area of ocean, centre it on screen and wait a moment..islands start to appear as little square dots. Each time you move to a new area more and more islands start appearing out of the blue. Not just islands but some quite vast private continents begin to form also. I haven’t waited long enough yet to see them all appear but I’d have to guess we’re talking several thousands islands with a total land area probably much greater than the continents and spreading over an enormous ocean area.
Now if someone would like to count them..anyone fancy a challenge ?
Perre..
