Just found these two pics on Tony Park's blog

[PsychoXR-20]

I wouldn't take to much stock in the "4km by 4km" continents. That's the exact same sizes PlanetSide said before it was released and look what we have now, Cyssor is nearly 8km wide. Some will be larger, some will be smaller.

[Hamma]

I don't understand this guy at all - they tell him stuff and he just spouts off. What gives with this dude?

[Firefly]

Originally Posted by Hamma

I don't understand this guy at all - they tell him stuff and he just spouts off. What gives with this dude?

Plausible Deniability.

Smedley made some grandiose claims which, thus far, haven't really taken shape at all. I'm wondering if Corp. Legal said "hey, you better cut that shit out" or if something seriously delayed the game.

But this way, they have a dude who can "leak" stuff and then, when it turns out that it was more smokescreen, SOE can say "Oh, that? Yeah, that's um... localization... yeah... that's the ticket!"

[Westy543]

Re: Map size

They said they wanted 333 per side IIRC, that's nearly 1000. The maps can't be getting smaller. Maybe the above is a testing map for small scale balance.