User blog comment:DeirdreKent101/Population Decline In the Elder Scrolls/@comment-4692902-20120801094914

Well, the scaling of TES games have always been, fluctuating, after all Daggerfall was roughly larger than twice the size of the British Isles(and yet it was comprised of only High Rock and the northern portion of Hammerfell), but it was largely copy and pasted and the graphics were rather basic, even back then if I recall. Ever since then, NPCs have started getting more and more complex, after all, in Oblivion, they started having actual schedules to which they would do things.