The primary method of Egyptian navigation is the coordinate system. There are two numbers: The first represents the x coordinate, the second represents the y coordinate. x coordinates run west to east, and y coordinates run north to south. If you've heard of a cartesian plane before, this concept shouldn't be too foreign.
Sometimes you'll see coordinates written with (braces), and sometimes without. This is just a matter of style and personal preference. In all honesty it doesn't really matter. :)
Handy and/or trivial facts about coordinates:
- The southwest and northeast corners of the map are (-3071, -8191) and (5119, 8191).
- Each coordinate represents 16 feet.
- This means that the two far corners of the game world are actually 55.5 miles apart.
- The standard running speed is 1 coordinate per second, or 11 miles per hour.
- If you look at the desert texture from above, you'll see a tile pattern - these tiles are the size of 1 coordinate.
- The grassy texture has slightly darker green spots at the corner of the tiles.
- The map displays '0' for two squares of distance- thus there is a '+0' square and a '-0' square.