Guild Wars 2

I just pulled all of the map data into my database only to realise that alot of the newer story instances seem to have their region_id and region_name set to 8 and Steamspur Mountains, even though all of them took place in either Kryta, The Maguuma Wastes or the Tarnished Coast.

Example:

“993” : {
“names” : {
“de” : “Scarlets Geheimraum”,
“en” : “Scarlet’s Secret Room”,
“es” : “Habitación secreta de Scarlet”,
“fr” : “Pièce secrète de Scarlet”
},
“min_level” : 80,
“max_level” : 80,
“floors” : [ 0, 1, 2 ],
“region_id” : 8,
“region_names” : {
“de” : “Dampfsporngebirge”,
“en” : “Steamspur Mountains”,
“es” : “Montañas Brotavapor”,
“fr” : “Chaîne de Pointebrume”
},
“continent_id” : 1,
“continent_names” : {
“de” : “Tyria”,
“en” : “Tyria”,
“es” : “Tyria”,
“fr” : “Tyrie”
},
“map_rect” : [ [ -24576, -30720 ], [ 24576, 30720 ] ],
“continent_rect” : [ [ 3840, 14592 ], [ 5888, 17152 ] ]
}

that one should have region set to Maguuma Wastes.

the map_ids in question are 989 and onwards, though some of them are correct, but most arent. Is there a reason behind it?

Nearly all personal story/living world instances are located in that region. I don’t think an explanation has ever been given.

Dr Ishmael.9685:

Nearly all personal story/living world instances are located in that region. I don’t think an explanation has ever been given.

I see. I just found it odd because other story instances that have been added around the same time (“The Machine” and “Trouble at For Salma” for example) had the correct region attributed to them.