You're right, Chipp, there was no sense of scale in TG0.9, only the terrain size, which acted very differently from Vue. In Vue, whether the terrain is 256x256 or 4096, the terrain is the exact same size, it just has more definition.
In TG 0.9, a 4096 terrain  is 4 times larger than a 256 terrain, and of course has more definition.