Jingling, I'm asking because I haven't seen one bigger than this. I wasn't thinking anything about it until I got about 3/4 of the way through the wall gate. It may have taken 15-20 secs.

I turned around and decided to time my run. There's a street that runs straight through, from end to end. It took just about 10 minutes. There's a point width wise that may be just a little longer. The city is almost square, minus the lower SW side, about 10%.

The cool thing about the towns is that they are real stuctures, if you see it you can get there. Lot's of open doors and such.

Originally posted by bcbully

Jingling, I'm asking because I haven't seen one bigger than this. I wasn't thinking anything about it until I got about 3/4 of the way through the wall gate. It may have taken 15-20 secs.

I turned around and decided to time my run. There's a street that runs straight through, from end to end. It took just about 10 minutes. There's a point width wise that may be just a little longer. The city is almost square, minus the lower SW side, about 10%.                                  

The cool thing about the towns is that they are real stuctures, if you see it you can get there. Lot's of open doors and such.

Holy cow, that's huge!

Originally posted by bcbully

Jingling, I'm asking because I haven't seen one bigger than this. I wasn't thinking anything about it until I got about 3/4 of the way through the wall gate. It may have taken 15-20 secs.

 

I turned around and decided to time my run. There's a street that runs straight through, from end to end. It took just about 10 minutes. There's a point width wise that may be just a little longer. The city is almost square, minus the lower SW side, about 10%.

 

Could you maybe post some photos of what the city actually looks like? All I see is the wall, which gives me the impression that the city is big, but only big for the sack of being big. Is there shops? NPC? anything to do in the city? Is it at least artistically cool or interesting? Is searching through the buildings fun? Do we see cool statues that are only in a few houses, that sort of thing. What makes this city unique and big? Or is it just big? I'm a fan of large cities but this one sounds like a big square for the sack of being a big square.

Hmm, actually closer inspection I notice a few details of the city. Some nice looking buildings and a big pond it looks like, but beyond that is there anything? Just curious. 

Cities provide a variety of functions and nearly every alley and street is useful in some way. Some streets are filled with players vending their wares. If you are looking for a specific item, you'll have to read their signposts to see which ones are selling weapons and which ones are selling food. The alleys are constantly filled with wandering offline player characters (in AoW when you logout your character persists and NPC --> might be sweeping the floor of and inn, or serving lunch at a restaurant). Many players use the alleys as escape routes to ferry their kidnapped victims without getting caught. It's really very exciting, but nearly everything in the city is useful.

In list form cities are where:

PVP arena challenges and duels occur in great frequency (challenge summons)

Mass player-player economy flow

Quests (tons and they are mostly story-based even if the translation is janked)

Kidnapping occurs

Competing in NPC life skill minigames (used to level up life skills)

Training with life skill NPCs

You begin caravan escort missions

Sacred centers of Team Practice (accelerated cultivation-xp conversion--> allows you to speed your skill leveling)

Originally posted by samuraislyr4

 

Could you maybe post some photos of what the city actually looks like? All I see is the wall, which gives me the impression that the city is big, but only big for the sack of being big. Is there shops? NPC? anything to do in the city? Is it at least artistically cool or interesting? Is searching through the buildings fun? Do we see cool statues that are only in a few houses, that sort of thing. What makes this city unique and big? Or is it just big? I'm a fan of large cities but this one sounds like a big square for the sack of being a big square.

Hmm, actually closer inspection I notice a few details of the city. Some nice looking buildings and a big pond it looks like, but beyond that is there anything? Just curious. 

pic r broken at top

Originally posted by Dantae87

pic r broken at top

 

top of my last post?

Yeah, all of your pictures are broken bully.

You can see a brief clip of every faction starting area as part of the character introduction in the school vs. school fight videos on the Age of Wushu YouTube channel.

I think the author is speaking about Nankin (dunno how it spelled right in english). It is indeed possibly the largest city in MMORPGs to date, if you dont count DDO's Stormreach with all its underground levels and dungeons. Its just enormous.

Every single city in game has unique and beautiful design. And they dont feel empty. Lots of NPCs, scenes, offline characters working and doing stuff. 

Originally posted by Fdzzaigl
Works for me, looks impressive!

Awesome! Yeah I was blown away lastnight.

Jinling was a very old name for present day Nanjing.

That first picture posted by the OP is the Southern Gate of Jinling (Jubao gate).  These are actual pictures of the gate in the 1930s.

At the time of AoW, the city has 13 gates - some of the gates measured higher than 20 meters and 10 meters deep.

Eventually the city gates were increased to 19, two of them just  for railways  - but during the siege of Nanjing in 1937 the invading Japanese army destroyed the some of gates and the city  wall using heavy artillery.

South Gate in ruins:

Finally, here's a link to a photo of the same gate reconstructed (now known as Zhonghua Gate) taken a few years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2004_0928_Nanjing_ZhongHuaGate.jpg