It’s bad design in your opinion. Other people have differing opinions.
Yes well no shit Sherlook
My point was that we do grasp why you don’t like this design but do not agree.
From what I see in the responses I don't see understanding , Instead I get... Why would we want an empty map or a boring map , why would anyone creator make a boring map ? If the game is boring the developer fail , you can still make interessting maps full of life but with a more realistic scope on things !!
It seems to me that you aren’t grasping our objections.
All of the top down RPGs with more realistic maps have been boring to us, at least in terms of traversal.
Either you space the map out and then you are just watching your character walk across empty, pointless terrain, or you make the maps small, and the exploration is trivialized and undermined by the small scale.
