Tyria-Elona Triangulation Error

Fact: In one area of Elona, called Crystal Overlook, it's possible to take a teleporter to The Arid Sea, an area in the Crystal Desert of Tyria (As long as you've been to both areas).

Fact: In the Arid Sea, there is a statue of a female warrior standing high and regal above the sands.

Fact: It's possible to see this statue from the north portion of the Crystal Overlook. It is the only place in the game where you can see another continent.

Fact: From two different points, you can see the statue from similar, yet different directions, allowing a cartographer to triangulate the position of the statue and, at the same time, all of Tyria in relation to Elona. The results are shown below...



As you can see... observations indicate that Tyria is too close to Elona. A portion of Thirsty River intersects with The Ruptured Heart.

What does this mean?!|||Quote:




What does this mean?!




1) you listened in maths class

2) you take this game a little to seriously

nice observation though |||and u have solved sumtin :D|||hey, now that's a nice find!|||However, although we can see the statue, we have no real way of knowing how far away it is. I mean that thing is huge. While Tyria and Elona are close (very) I do not think they overlap.|||There are two ways of figuring out its distance. The first is unreliable, and that is to compare how large it appears from the Crystal Overlook and fing that exact scale and height from a distance in the Arid Sea.

The second is very reliable, and how I found its location here: If you view an object from two different locations, you will see it at different angles. Drawing straight lines from these two points, they will eventually intersect at the location of the object. This is also a good way to figure out distance, if you know the angles and distance on your side.

While you don't think they overlap, and overlapping is a physical impossibility without some VERY strong magic or divine influence, the facts and observations are right there and I'd attribute this to an error on the part of ANet.

I'll include here pictures of the statue itself from the two locations at Crystal Overlook.



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However, although we can see the statue, we have no real way of knowing how far away it is




Yes, we can see how far the statue is with the method Mekel used.|||Nice find but the paradox is explained later in the game - when Kormir talks about the Temple of the Six Gods and how Abaddon had drawn the parts of Crystal Desert and Arid See (and the said temple of which the statue is a part) with him into the depths of Hell.

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Nice find but the paradox is explained later in the game - when Kormir talks about the Temple of the Six Gods and how Abaddon had drawn the parts of Crystal Desert and Arid See (and the said temple of which the statue is a part) with him into the depths of Hell.

Still, nice find there




yeah but that is in side the vortex, kinda like nightfallen jahai, so it is likly still the real statue, unless abadon reached the surface :O|||Of course, one thing to remember is that when you get close to the statue in the Arid Sea, it appears to have toppled over. (If fact, if you watch it the whole time you approach, you see it eventually just "jump" from upright to fallen)