Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-25340654-20141010201330/@comment-1600847-20141016160051

ViVe wrote:

It doesn't mean that something is blank it can be freely edited. You must look at the consequences and since it happend before skyrim they must take a look after the cities and their history in Skyrim before making the same city in Online As I explained, there's a logical explanation for Windhelm looking brand new, it was just rebuilt a few years before, of course it won't be ruinous.

As for Riften, it's hardly a "metropolis", it's no bigger than any other city in the game. Smaller than some, actually. As to it looking different than it does in Skyrim, it does take place several hundred years before. Cities change over long oeriods of time.