Geography of ARR vs. 1.0

[TinyRedLeaf]

ARR's Black Shroud might have gone too far in the other direction in that, while it's clearly wooded, it's not nearly as densely wooded as the tree line just outside my apartment complex.

Huge chunks of Dalamud had presumably crashed into the forest during the Calamity. And Bahamut likely added to the destruction when he briefly ran amok. Five years of slow recovery would hardly be enough to replace the entire groves of the thousand-year-old trees destroyed during the disaster.

At least, that's why I think the 'Black' Shroud looks the way it does now.

As for what I don't miss about the 1.0 maps: I'm certainly more than glad to see the complete end to aetheryte camps. They were pathetic, demonstrating an absolute lack of commitment to design plausible towns or settlements, pockets of civilisation amid the wilderness. And I remember how Aleport 1.0 was no more than a collection of a few grey buildings with hardly anyone around, a far cry from how it looks today.

One thing that I do wonder about is when Toll goes full city will they zone it and add more land to Mor Dhona and connectors to both sides with out going through Toll to adjust the size?

Actually, I kind of feel sorry for future players who will never get to experience how Revenant's Toll literally grew before our eyes.

Unless there are plans to introduce the settlement to new players in phases, like how players won't see the Domans until they've completed the main story quests from patch 2.2? Another example perhaps be the Waking Sands, which would look different, depending on how far into the main story quest the player has gone.

Is this already the case for Revenant's Toll?