Scale a map size down by about 20%

wayward

I've been reading on scaling map sizes up, but I cannot figure out how to scale everything down. I made the map size and thus distances about 20% too big based on some stuff I want to do with it. How can I scale down everything to be 20% smaller, so 100 miles become 80 miles etc on an overland map? I've been playing with the scale command but must be missing some steps, its not working correctly. Thanks

Joachim de Ravenbel

Scaling 20% is scaling to 80% as you say yourself in your miles example.
The scaling factor to put in is thus 0.8 (80 over 100).

Theoritically though, if your map is 20% too big you shoud divide by 1.2 (120%) resulting in a scale factor of 1/1.2 (you can type it exactly like this : 1/1.2 CC3 understands). 1/1.2 is ca. 0.8333 so if you use 0.8 instead you won't be far away.

The scaling factor in CC3 is not in % but is the decimal (or ratio) value corresponding to the %. Anything like 0.8 , 0.80, 8/10 , 80/100, (100-20)/100 would be a correct answer to the prompt, the latest being the mathematically equivalent of minus 20%.
The % character is reserved (in CC3) to the percent along command and is not usable otherwise so typing 80% won't work for the scale command.

Hope I'm clear enough.
Happy mapping,
JdR