Arrrgh... Today kind of pissed me off when I was working on this - I slept for nearly twelve hours, and woke up four hours after the time I wanted to - 6:00. ARGHBLBLBB!!!1 Once again I update late in the day... 6:00 again.

B-E-A-Youuutiful.
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Okaaay... frustration and fists waving madly aside, onto the comic!

I think this is the first time I did a Doonesbury-type shillouette panel - I try to avoid things like that since it's sort of like a cheapshot, an easy way to get out of drawing and coloring, but given it was a small panel and I was trying to get this comic done in time, well... Guess there's a first time for everything.

This comic relies more on the text and probably isn't going to be all that funny, not like my others, but I think this is a good point to make about the game's world.

It's my opinion that Ragnarok Online suffers from "RPG World Syndrome," where the world is the physical size of the moon or even smaller, and there's only a handful of towns on the entire planet. These towns often have only a dozen inhabitants. You see this syndrome a LOT in console games, especially Final Fantasy.

Keep in mind that RO itself is not like Ragnarok the manga - and given what I know now about RO (that Gravity KR has had the intention of making the RO world cutsey and chibi-style all the time), I've gotten the impression that Gravity wanted to make everything in the world, not just the style, super deformed and "assumed" - cutsey little chibi towns (Geffen and its road cone sized tower, anyone?), and so on.

In the actual manga, Prontera and Morroc are huge mothers. I would say they're the size of London back in the 1600s, maybe even bigger. All of the towns are big, and the world of Midgard area (which is Rune-Midgard in RO) itself is, from my estimate, the size of Europe.

Whatta big difference when you look at the RO world

So I actually went out and guesstimated the size of the RO world - at least, the Rune Midgard kingdom which is mostly Beta-1 era maps - and fund out just how tiny the most important human country in the RO world is.

And that's the basis for this comic.

By the way, those two guys poking their heads out on the side of the second biiiig panel - that's John Bull and Uncle Sam, the mascots (if I can call them that) of the United Kingdom and United States, respectively. I was gonna have them say something funnier, but I couldn't think of anything that couldn't be taken to mean something wrong (which would not have been my intention). I left them there anyway just to be random and hopefully improve the humor.

One final note...
PLZ DON'T SUE ME, DISNEY! ;0;