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Volume II, Issue Two, Article 3
II (2) 3 Advances in Construction: Masonry by Daithi _Introduction:_ After several attempts to invent something, I was delighted to find myself researching Masonry. This new knowledge is in the Construction family. The associated building with Masonry is Tower. This article presents a first report on the feasibility of construction of Towers and their benefits. Some limits to this report arise due to the recent nature of this new knowledge and the s.e. limits of this researcher to effectively calibrate and exact a more accurate assessment of the feasibility of construction. In order to determine the feasibility of construction, I attempted to determine what minimum elevation was required to create the Tower. As indicated in the help description (Table 1) it is to be "Built on tall mountains." So how tall is tall was the question. So this article looks at the experiments conducted to determine how high a mountain is required to build a Tower. So the hypotheses for this series of experiments were as follows: (1) A tower can be built upon a Red Mountain (2) A tower can be built upon a tall, Red Mountain (3) A tower can be built upon a White Mountain (4) A tower can be built upon tall, Green Hills (5) A tower can be built upon Green Hills Immediately available on Rainbow Catastrophe were several different locations. To save time I immediately decided to apply binary search methods and split the difference by elevations of the hypotheses. Experiment ~1:~ A Red Mountain Tower The first attempt to build was on a Red Mountain of 854 meters elevation. This failed. "building tower failed: This land isn't high and rocky enough." Based upon this I concluded that, because of the previously indicated need to build on tall mountains that 854 meters was not tall enough and that any efforts to build at lower elevations would fail. Experiment ~2:~ A Tall Red Mountain Tower This second attempt was to build a Tower on a Red Mountain space of 1402 meters elevation. This also failed. "building tower failed: This land isn't high and rocky enough." Based upon this I was faced with a tough decision: (a) raise elevation to gradually increase the height of the mountain and get an accurate measure of the threshold point for building a tower. (b) Or raise mountains and jump by 100 to 200 meter increments, possibly overshooting the mark. (c) Or save s.e. and time and go to the 1953 meter White Mountain. Because I could not rule out the possibility that a tall mountain might mean a very tall White Mountain, (like say Anjill's 4454 meter behemoth), decided to jump the 550 meters to the 1953 meter high White Mountain. Experiment ~3:~ A White Mountain This third attempt was met with success. "building tower completed." Upon completion I gained an extra space in the radius of my view/action screen. This represents an increase of up to 65% in viewing area (from 37 spaces to 61 spaces, including origin space of viewer). It was now time to conduct a survey of systems to evaluate the further potential. _Survey:_ I explored all action menus, screen viewing options, and tried to travel up and down. Travelling up and down is not still possible on the space I built the tower. There were no new action items that were related to the Tower itself. Note, as shown in table 3, that this requires 40 villagers to work there if attached to a village. Additionally, I surveyed the 4 souls that were previously out of range of my veiw until the Tower was built. None knew of my location. Nor was there any remark or mention made of being able to see the tower. _Results:_ Based upon 3 attempts, it appears that Towers must be built on White Mountains. Mountains of 1403 meters elevation and lower will fail to hold the Tower, while mountains of 1953 meters elevation and higher will sustain a Tower. Based upon this this researcher concludes that hypotheses 4 and 5 are false. And that Hypothesis 3 is true. I cannot yet conclude that Hypotheses 1 and 2 are false, though, there is a high probability that they are false. Additionally, survey results indicate that there is a direct benefit to the Tower space, increasing the view of the world by as much as 65%. There were no other benefits, additions or augmentations noted. There is no ability to see the Tower by souls who are in that supplemental viewing area. _Discussion:_ Masonry is a powerful new knowledge is essentially non-magical, but provides the benefit of being able to build a Tower. The Tower itself seems to be only able to be built upon White Mountains. While the exact elevation threshold is unknown, it is clear that White Mountains are of sufficiently high elevation to make Tower erection possible. Some may criticize this study because of the indeterminant nature of the specific elevation threshold. Because of the time and s.e. cost involved to do such a study, in the face of unknown, but possible elevation thresholds exceeding the elevations studied, it was determined that saving the s.e. for possible Raise Mountains was necessary. Additionally, the effort to haul 410 stone requires a substantial amount of souls and thus a substantially large amount of time to travel to acquire and transport the stone to the construction site. There several questions that arise from this research that this auther is very interested in evaluating. There may be benefits to having the tower as an addition to an already existing edifice. Also, what might occur to the increase in view if yet higher still mountains were used is of interest. I propose there for 3 directions for researchers and mages who may follow: (1) determine the precise elevation threshold for Tower construction success. (2) determine if the Tower can be built upon existing buildings, including farms, villages, quarries, and temples. Text from the help screen (Table 1): Tower (34 hours to complete) Built on tall mountains. This requires: 410 Stone associated skill: Construction associated knowledge: Masonry -------------------------------------- Tower Looks out upon surrounding areas. Text from detail view (Table 2): Tower This area belongs to ******** Village of ******* ******. (detach) 40 villagers work here. Looks out upon surrounding areas. elevation: 1953 meters Weblink for previewing (Table 3): http://gokrida.com/im/tower.gif |
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