Filling the Gaps: following in the footsteps of the Wildwood and the Angle

[TesalionLortus]

Scenario has mentioned that they moved smaller things like instances out of the way, when building stuff like Yondershire, because those were in the way of the new map area. Not that they have moved the entire main map itself. Two different things entirely from a programming perspective.

Not different, one is just more time-consuming. Anyway, worst case scenario we'll just need teleports and will have new region maps. I can take it. The region border on Harnen and off we go, into expansive Harad and Umbar that have enough space to grow in whichever direction. I'm still not sure what they wanna include for Umbar, it should be stage and center of this expansion, not some afterthought enclosure roughly around the city in addition to repeated Gondor landscape and Anfalas. Gondor was like their biggest sin/bad compression that they're now correcting by delving into these valleys (kind of). The sense of scale going South and with boats in play should be much larger. The distances will be alight if they keep their current track record of scale but sometimes something like they've done with Evendim Lake where it's a bit overblown for sense of awe might be a great idea for these coastline features, bays, and river mouths.

Also, I specifically remember Sev who said things like "expect us to go South" around the time when they first announced Umbar (to question regarding Gondor/future updates of landscape, not expansion specifically), so not sure, that comment hardly makes sense?