...from one city to another in Daggerfall?

Yes, but it'd take some time, quite some time.

someone did a test once, walking from one side of the map to the other. They did it too, it just took two weeks real-time.

so yes you can walk between cities, but expect to lose the afternoon.

Whoever did that wins the award for "Outstanding Achievement in having Way Too Much Time On One's Hands".

Eh, I did it once by dumping a stack of quarters on the movement keys while I sat back and played FF3 on my SNES. Looking over and seeing the world whiz by (I was levitating and with heavily fortified speed/running skill) is kind of neat, but not all that cool. Especially since you rarely actually run across a settlement of any kind.

Just a couple of fun stats. The Daggerfall map is made up of 1000*500 world cells (each world cell is the dimensions of a full city like Wayrest or Daggerfall). A world cell can either be a defined location (graveyard, town, city, inn, dungeon entrance, etc.) or random wilderness.

There are 15251 locations defined in MAPS.BSA (4232 of those are dungeons). Pretending for a moment that each location occupies a full world cell the size of Wayrest, just over 3% of the world map is actually populated by something other than wilderness. Considering most those locations are actually much smaller than a full world cell in dimension, and dungeons are mostly "undergound", the real figure is probably between 1-2%. That's pretty empty.

In the course of normal gameplay you could wander for a long time and never stumble on another point of interest. But it's so much more fun when you do.

Holy crap! Is that an Interkarma?

Long time no see, I mean really. How you doing? Any updates on anything, like your Daggerfall engine? Hehe.

Doing great thanks, Sur. Hope you've been well.

Nothing new to report, sorry. All I've been developing lately is stuff like a new front-end to an old FoxPro accounting database. Pure yawn, but it keeps me in beer and curry.

Pure yawn, but it keeps me in beer and curry.

To reduce the yawn factor, add Easter eggs. Always worked for me!

I like the way you think, Doc.