[quote=@Crispy Octopus]
To preface, I am in agonizing back pain at the moment and needed to distract myself.  Normally I would not do something so pointlessly stupid.  Also I'm on muscle relaxants and in pain so, grain of salt.[/quote]I am regretful to hear that and regardless thank you for the help.

[quote]But here we are.  Willy's claim is 38509 pixels.  

The distance from 10N to 67N is ~6324km.  On the image it is 947 pixels.

So 6324/947 gives us a rough value of 6.68km to one pixel.  Pixels are square units, but since that measurement gives us one side we know that a pixel square is about 44.6 km squared.

So one pixel is 44.6 km squared.

38509 * 44.6 = 1,717,501 km squared.

This is [i]extremely[/i] generous given how I selected his stuff, so pare it down to 1.5 or something.[/quote]Oh, I thought you used a program to calculate the amount of purple pixels. Although with high levels of transparency that may not work, now that I think of it.
I personally used simple rectangular approximations and length dividends of the distance between 10 to 67 latitude (the only fix number we have). Galhonore (Southern continental holdings) being a 1/4th length multiplied by 1/12th length. The majority of the Northern continental holdings can be approximated to IIRC a 1/8th x 1/8th square. The remainder can be imagined to fit in an 1/8th x 1/16th claim.
I need to redo the measurements to confirm these numbers but that's how I remember the way I did it.






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The size is irrelevant.  The issue is that you're trying to be Great Britain while living in a climate less hospitable than iceland Willy.  Canada is huge, but most of it is frigid wasteland.  Magic can only go so far before there [i]just isn't anything to eat.[/i]  So Aaron is right, make your homeland somewhere worth living.[/quote]My core worlds' landmass is bigger than Sweden and roughly at the same latitude with plenty of water access. This is no paradise but neither is unlivable, especially since a number of those islands are actually in the moderate climate zone so even just derived from the longitude this is better off than Sweden. And the Swedish Empire was a powerful nation in its time in spite of its low population.
Following the colonization of islands their next target was further up North so no problem. As for the Southern conquest it's still something I wouldn't call impossible. It depends on the state the region was in. If it were a powerful nation say comparable to medieval France then perhaps Yllendthyr would've never taken them. But not all nations are as strong as West European major powers. Nor the land which is now Galhonore was necessarily united.

Anyways, when me and Aaron were talking about the size the topic involved a ruling which meant newer players should have smaller nations. My only response to that was the fact my nation is already considered smaller than what most of the old players were making. And I am fine being smaller and less important than them.

I have no problem with the idea of changing details about my nation. I have problem when the follow up response is passive aggressive and authoritative. To my knowledge I did not provoke such a response and it rubs me in the wrong way.