Comparison : Ingame and IRL (56k killer)

[[SD]Kratos]

Ok so most of you know SRO places are all real. They all exist in real life (with real people and all i swear) !!

So here's a comparison between ingame screenshots and real places in real life

constantinople :
ingame :


Real life :


Samarkand:
In game :


Real life :


Hotan:
In Game :


Real Life (Taj Mahal) :


Downhang stone cave :
In Game :


Real life :


Jangan :
In game :


Real life :




Also :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army (Ch'in tomb)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_he (the river between jangan and dw fields)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_An
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarkand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_basin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takla_Makan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia (penis forest. yes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Taishan (this seems to be rok mountain)
EDIT : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenghuang (Roc)
EDIT : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus (cerberus)

That's all i found :>

P.S: I was thinking there was legends about the unique monsters (pretty sure for cerberus) but the only thing i could find is about roc : it's actually a chinese fable about a litle and a huge bird. I found it in french though, not english :/

[heroo]

nice

moar!

[[SD]Kratos]

im trying to find out about the uniques

not sure if this is TG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Hu

[BalkanFanaticS]

at least u could've switched to high settings while u make the ss so it wouldn't look like puke

[NO_SILK_4_ME]

Nice work Celsius, hope to see you in game soon =)

[TheDrop]

Dam very nice . JM almost made it to look realistic lol.

very cool job celsius.
but i have to disagree on one point. Taj Mahal is in Agra, India, which is far away from where (K)hotan was/is.

[[SD]Kratos]

at least u could've switched to high settings while u make the ss so it wouldn't look like puke

that's high settings blame imageshack

[greeneye]

wow nice finds Krat...=)

P.S: I was thinking there was legends about the unique monsters (pretty sure for cerberus) but the only thing i could find is about roc : it's actually a chinese fable about a litle and a huge bird. I found it in french though, not english :/

well imma pretty sure this dude:



was taken from this Japanese legend: Yamata no Orochi

hehe, a dragon that can't hold his liquor^^

ps: not my ss btw it is a googlified version

[Helper]

LOL nicely put together.. but yeah I was also shocked at the inclusion of the taj... thats in India? khotan is in China o_0

[/Pi]

Isyutaru: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar

I can't find any pics or records of the Hotan palace but JM seems to have based the style on the Taj Mahal, even if it's not it. Here's a more historical wiki on Khotan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Khotan

Edit: You got Roc wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roc_(mythology)

[CLOT]

didnt know hotan is india o_O

[RogueKiller]

Shouldn't hotan be an indian city?
Edit:
I'm pretty sure Ishtar isn;t Isteryu

[mouad]

wow good find dude i was earlier this day checking out that regions ingame
actually existed and now even the cites, thats awsom.

Hope JM puts more effrot into restablizing SRO like in the 70 cap

[Rainigul]

Yup, Silkroad is a realistic game. Donwhang stone cave is like the exact same.
There's also the penis mountains you forgot about.

Roc is the giant flightless bird.
Cerberus guards the gates of hell.

Those are the only two I know are real and in Silkroad, though I'm sure the others have some sort of basis as well.

[MooMooMoo]

Oh thanks this is fantastic! Thanks for the hard work and time effort.

[REQUEST]
Can you do another one like this, but about the server names?

Send me a PM when you do, or if you actually have time to finish it, thanks in advance.

[Mcclane]

that makes the game that much cooler

[Panu]

didnt know hotan is india o_O

lol its not ... hotan = taj mahal , wat a joke. all the hotan guards seem more arabic not indian. if it does "link" to the taj mahal, gimmie the links.

[Barotix]

Oh thanks this is fantastic! Thanks for the hard work and time effort.

[REQUEST]
Can you do another one like this, but about the server names?

Send me a PM when you do, or if you actually have time to finish it, thanks in advance.

Aege: Every search for Aege on google brings up gold selling sites.

Alexnader: Named after the conqueror, the great, Alexander the great. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great

Alps: Named after the mountain range: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps

Athens: Named after the city state Athens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens

Babel: The city of Babylon, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon

El Dorado: Lost city of gold, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado_%28legend%29

Greece: Named after the country, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece

Hera: Named after a Greek "mother" goddess, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera

Hercules: Mythical Hero, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules

Mars: Roman god of War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_%28mythology%29

Mercury: A Roman messanger in myths and legends, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28mythology%29

Neptune: The god of the seas, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_%28mythology%29

Oasis: A fertile area in a desert, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis

Odin: The Main Norse god, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin

Olympus: Home of the Olympiads, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus

I'm done for now. I'm tired.

@Panu, Hotan = Khotan. It isn't in India but they based the central building off the thaj mahal because it shares more Islamic designs than Hindu designs.

[Rhe7oric]

I can just imagine some SRO addicted tourist out where-ever this place is and say to everyone, "Hey look, its the Donwhang stone cave!"

Maybe they even sell stuffed Power earth ghost souvenirs....

[TOloseGT]

Aege: Every search for Aege on google brings up gold selling sites.

Alexnader: Named after the conqueror, the great, Alexander the great. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great

Alps: Named after the mountain range: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps

Athens: Named after the city state Athens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens

Babel: The city of Babylon, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon

El Dorado: Lost city of gold, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado_%28legend%29

Greece: Named after the country, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece

Hera: Named after a Greek "mother" goddess, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera

Hercules: Mythical Hero, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules

Mars: Roman god of War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_%28mythology%29

Mercury: A Roman messanger in myths and legends, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28mythology%29

Neptune: The god of the seas, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_%28mythology%29

Oasis: A fertile area in a desert, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis

Odin: The Main Norse god, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin

Olympus: Home of the Olympiads, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus

i'll finish

Pacific: The Pacific Ocean
Persia: The Persian Empire
Pluto: God of the Underworld
Poseidon: God of the Sea, horses, and earthquakes
Saturn: God of Agriculture and Harvest
Sparta: Ancient Greek City-State
Tibet: Region in western China
Troy: City of Troy, the Trojan War fought over Helen of Troy
Uranus: Father Sky, son and husband of Mother Earth, Gaia
Venice: City of Venice in Italy, famous for its canals
Venus: Goddess of Love
Xian: Xi'an, Chinese city, used to be an ancient captal of China
Zeus: God of Sky and Thunder, "King of the Gods"

and the coming

Gaia: Mother Earth

[The_LEAF]

Great topic!
Thx a lot all!

[Bg_DrEaM]

Cleopatra's Gate (also known as The gate of the bitch)...

Don't have ingame screen, but here is the RL one

[[SD]Kratos]

where is situated that cleopatra's gate? egypt?

[Bg_DrEaM]

Turkey

According to Wikimapia, which has an aerial view of Tarsus,
"A town gate from the Roman period is described as Cleopatra's Gate. It was the entrance of Tarsus,
a major Roman city of its time. In Roman times, people used to sail under the gate by boats when the
city was located at the Mediterranean coast. Today the sea is an approximate 10km away from
Cleopatra's Gate due to rivers filling the water."

[Godzilla666]

It even goes further than that, you find other historical sites in the game itself, although they don't fit in the silkroad.

The aquaduct near constantinople, lots of aquaducts like that remain. It ressembles to the one of segovia or the pont du gard in france

Mini Chichen Itza in the tombs in the nort east Jangan aera, it's just like chichen itza with the colonnade next to it

The buddha statues all over the don area, reminding the statues destroyed a couple of years ago in Afghanistan

The colosseum in Rome (here in consantinople)

And lots more ^^

[Ploxy]

nice find (i already knew it there were in new but im too lazy too find pics/information for it )

[l05tfr33k7]

nice topic

Yarkan area and officials (mobs lol) = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarkent_County

[AngelEyes]

That's all pretty cool, even the detail of the wiki entries. I just always though a lot of this stuff was made up, the pics and the names and history of the areas of SRO. The fact that there was an actual Niya Oasis, just seems to make the game that much more interesting. Guess that's what comes from having a Western History education. Nice work.

[MrBow]

Nice Krat, sticky pls

[RogueKiller]

Aege: Every search for Aege on google brings up gold selling sites.

Aegean Sea
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q ... a=N&tab=wi