Land size

[Peaches]

So the question I have for the community is lets say you have a 300+ person OP or so, how much acreage do you think is a decent size to actually play on where your not tripping over everyone.

For instance, at Steel Talon, there were 400+ players on about 10acres or so maybe less, and while I didn't feel that we were tripping over each other, it seemed like the ability to really move was restricted (nothing against you Top).

[Transition]

100 acres

[Snowman]

/An acre an operator.

100 acres is pretty decent, from what I've seen. Just as long as it isn't all pure forestry and brush. :/

[Catch22]

Steel Talon was at Splat Action. That field is 60 acres.

[Switchback]

/An acre an operator.

100 acres is pretty decent, from what I've seen. Just as long as it isn't all pure forestry and brush. :/

Yeah, I'd say it greatly varies based upon terrain. I've played games from 8 players in 4 acres and some larger games where it was much denser, and both felt fine. As long as you have some good flat-ness and buildings.

[Peaches]

Steel Talon was at Splat Action. That field is 60 acres.

According to Splat Actions website, it's 47 acres, and I know we didn't use the whole entire play field, I think we only used about half if I remember correctly.

Well the land I was looking at (yes it may be a while but I have something major in the works, completely legal) in which I may be able to buy some land so that way we can have something like that up here in Wa, pickings are slim but I think I might have found something at about 90 acres or so, but figure in 5 acres for camping/parking and about 3 acres or so for the fencing I would have to put up to shelter the neighbors. So I figured we should be able to get about 70-80 acres playable.

[Transition]

give you a idea tho, the farm was 28 and that included parking and staging, plus that huge a$$ valley, and people got lost all the time.

[Peaches]

I have never been to the Farm, so I can't say about that. But this area is fairly flat, a few recognizable landmarks from what I see. But that also begs the question, how many people from Oregon would be willing to come up to Seattle to play in a major OP/event?

[code789]

post some pics of the field

[Icepick]

LOW4 (about 220 people, right?) at Splat Action seemed a little bit too big to me... But I'm more interested in constant action, as opposed to walking around in the woods for 30 minutes before coming across one straggler. I think if you had roughly 300 people like you said, 50 acres would be the ideal size.

[Peaches]

post some pics of the field

http://www.johnlscott.com/propertydetail.aspx?GroupID=260388923&ListingID=300958609&CMID=-1&Sort=0

While the constant action is nice and all however with that being said, the OP's I am thinking about running if this goes through like I think it will, would be like the Red Invasions up here.

[Jason Bourne]

LOW4 (about 220 people, right?) at Splat Action seemed a little bit too big to me... But I'm more interested in constant action, as opposed to walking around in the woods for 30 minutes before coming across one straggler. I think if you had roughly 300 people like you said, 50 acres would be the ideal size.

It was actually 150 or so people. We had that many no-shows.

[Zack]

Land size is one of those things, there's never really too much. You just need to design gameplay to make the best use of areas. With something that large, if you have some areas of higher density (bases, villages, etc) and areas of lower density (middle of BFE) it strikes a good balance.

You can also focus play around certain areas, and if need be, restrict to smaller areas. This lets you use the same field repeatedly without being quite so repetitive in gameplay.

The biggest bonus, of course, is being able to set up life sized objectives on the field without crowding anyone. Like HLZ, or ammo dumps.