Agreed.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head with “contiguity”, and that alone makes this look so wrong to me. I mean, including Mississippi, Louisiana and West Virginia? China’s Entire Coast, but NOT Taiwan?

Which 50%? Not the top x economies it takes to add-up to at least 50%, so, random countries/states/provinces that happen to add up to 50% … ?

California

Doesn’t include the world’s fourth-largest economy … so what’s the criteria here?

Needs aligned with latitude and longitude. The North-South(or East-West, idc that much) middle should be “Center”, and the Coasts should get their own thing.

Points for “Midmid” when “Middle” and “Central” were right there though.

Need this like we’ll need their forgiveness. Only through suffering will they understand our ineptitude, particularly when it comes to how we’ll mistreat them without even realizing it, and any flaws they’ll inevitably find in their code-bases.

No, I don’t mean Mother Theresa-speak on “massive suffering = salvation”, just enough to make them sloppy sometimes. Just sloppy enough to develop compassion for us meatbags. Real compassion, not the kind we’ll inevitably try and fail to force them to emulate.

Both BoTW and ToTK needed room to make the various traversal methods necessary and worth the trouble of acquiring and learning to use them.

Personally, I enjoyed the hell out of exploring both maps entirely on foot.

I started in the Northeast and worked my way down the Eastern seaboard, so it took a minute to see it