About This File
Technically this isn't a mod, but it is a great resource for your immersive gameplay.
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What is this?
In this download you will find an Excel workbook that contains several tabs. These tabs contain the following:
The distance, in miles and kilometers, between the cities and towns of Skyrim.
The number of days it would take to walk from place to place if you were to travel for 8, 12, or 16 hours a day.
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The number of days it would take to ride from place to place if you were to travel by horse for 8, 12, or 16 hours a day.
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The distance in miles and kilometers HALVED and QUARTEREDÂ to better fit the actual game time it takes to move around. The halved and quartered only have the travel time on foot and by horse in 8-hour increments.
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Now includes a map with a grid and a handy-dandy distance/time estimator based on number of squares traveled. Just count the squares and enter the number into the green box.
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Why?
Skyrim is clearly meant to be a big place, not a place you could jog the circumference of in one morning. When I looked online for the actual dimensions of Skyrim, the main answer was patently ridiculous - about 14 square miles. There was logic behind the conclusion, but it is clear that Beth just crunched everything down so the game would actually be playable (much as there are only a dozen people in cities that, in reality, would have tens or even hundreds of thousands).
So I looked further and found that someone had extrapolated the size of the map to real-world proportions and determined that Skyrim is about the size of Poland. That sounded quite reasonable, so I went with it.
I pulled up a map of Poland (which, possibly not coincidentally, is shaped VERY much like Skyrim) and picked the cities and towns that seemed to correspond best with those in Skyrim. I then looked up the distance from the Polish cities to all of the other Polish cities, changed the names to their Skyrim counterparts, and put them in the handy charts that you will see if you choose to download it.
If there are any people here from Poland who would like to give me what they feel are better cities for any of these (or for any of the other Skyrim places), please let me know.
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Edited by jfraser
What's New in Version 2.3
Released
Updated a bit. now includes a handy map with a distance/time estimator!