[Prodigy9]

Intelli has mentioned that the world spawner for the new map after the wipe will be based on a specific seed number, chosen by him, rather than a randomly selected on. This means Intelli will know in advance what the general geographic features of the new map will be. Since the new world creating programming includes lots of very large oceans, it is probable that quite a few private realms that will be transferred to the new map will end up as large square islands in the middle of an ocean. In order to minimize the number of such unsightly square islands, information about the locations of oceans could be provided to the public shortly before the wipe. Players who own small realms as outposts separate from their main realms may feel it's not worth keeping those outposts if they would be in the middle of an ocean. While such realms could be sold either before or after the wipe, providing the info necessary to make that decision before the wipe will allow that realm to spawn as naturally occurring ocean rather than an artificial square island.

[cloudtheclow]

I would really like to know this as well. Since I'm current'y working on a city which I hope can one day become a spawn point, which I don't think will happen if it's surrounded by water.