Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170424154014/@comment-4010415-20170512180919

DragonNAW5 wrote: they are very well off, owning a whopping 15 acres of land. I have a couple questions: Does Atlas actually have 15 acres of land freely available for private ownership, and what do they need 15 acres of land for? I think you need to dial back how much land they own, personally.

Recall the history of Mountain Glenn: Vale needed to expand their kingdom's settled territory, so they built Mountain Glenn despite it being in an area that didn't have the natural barriers necessary to adequately defend against Grimm. If kingdoms need to make expansions to their settled territory to build entire cities, why would Atlas let one family privately own 15 whole acres of land?

Especially since Solitas (the continent that Atlas is on) is smaller than Sanus (Vale and Vacuo's continent), and Atlas is smaller than Mistral (with Mistral being noted as being a particularly large kingdom).

On continents that small, every inch of land is important. Just ask Japan! The traditional foods of Japan were chosen specifically because of how little land they have. Fish don't take up space on land, chickens can be raised on a roof, pigs can live in confined areas, rice takes up a hell of a lot less space than potatoes for example. They didn't used to really eat beef because a single cow and its calf can require anywhere from 1.5 to 4 acres, so it's better for them to import beef.

An acre is approximately the size of an American football field. For reference, here's a photo of an American football field with people on it for scale.

We don't even know if the Schnee family owns more land than necessary for their mansion.

Granted Blake's parents' home is on a pretty significant amount of land, but

1. Ghira is the chieftan of Kuo Kuana, not just some rich R&D specialist among many other R&D specialists.

2. It is most certainly not 15 whole acres of land. It's maybe 2 or 3, kinda hard to tell with the angle.

So, basically, my nitpick is:


 * This is a world where every inch of land counts in Vale, Vacuo, Atlas, and Menagerie. Mistral was noted to be a particularly large kingdom that has settled a very significant amount of land on Anima, though this has led to the government having trouble controlling the entire kingdom. Maybe if your character lived in Mistral, it would be less unbelievable for them to own 15 acres, especially since Mistral apparently has a thing going on with their rich elite.


 * If Ghira Belladonna, the chieftan of Kuo Kuana, only has 2-3 acres of land, why do your character's parents have 15?