Jonric: The map you recently released shows a large area with numerous islands and lots of water. How much is land, and what led you to design and create the gameworld in this manner?

Peter Tyson and Scott Cowie: We figure there is around 400square kilometers of land. And yes, there's a good deal of water about. Even though it looks like water dominates, when you're walking across those big islands, you don't notice the water so much.

The world was designed this way to give us lots of opportunities to explore new features in expansion packs like boats, which were eventually cut from the design.