How many square feet is a grid?
Theo:
Sooner or later you will stop using those obsolete units. Resistance is futile. You will be metricated.
Hecubus:
Hey, President Carter tried. I recall spending most of the late 70s diligently larning metric, because we were absolutely planning to join the rest of the world. Alas, bureaucracy will out, and all that's left are two-liter bottles of Coke. Oh yeah, and science uses metrics.
As far as the grid size goes, I tend to equate one grid to 9 square feet (or 1 square meter when I'm feeling British). It tends to provide sufficient space for movement, and as Notovny pointed out, it keeps buildings from getting too large. The only drawback, as near as I can tell, is that sims don't like one-tile-wide hallways. Too...crowded, perhaps?
dizzy:
From what I recall, in Sims 1 each grid is 4' x 4'. I think that's fairly standard for most architectural grids.
Khan of Wyrms:
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 November 06, 13:27:41
Hey, President Carter tried.
It was Ford who tried. Carter did not take office until 1977.
Theo:
Metric is only easier to learn mainly because of the powers of ten. The main problem with acceptance comes from tradition: people are still accustomed to the old quantities they use everyday. For example, people in the UK are still nostalgic about their pints of beer, because a half-litre jug will give them less beer per serving.
By the way, here's how a one-tile-widenarrow street looks like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Street,_Exeter :D
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