Empirical Evaluation of Fences

Aim: To answer once and for all the age-old question: which fence type to build?

• Wooden fence
• Stone wall
• Palisade
• Tall stone wall

Wooden fences and stone walls are easy to build. Palisades, while hard to obtain material for, are not noticably more difficult to build. Tall stone walls take an immediate penalty because even with 20 masonry the success rate for attaching bricks is less than 20%. Past experience shows that they are similarly hard to repair. Bricks aren't exactly easy to make either.

All 4 fences were created on Golden Valley at 20:00 09/06/2010 (UTC+1), using 20QL components and 20 carpentry/masonry skill, resulting in 21QL fences. Multiple characters were used for simultaneous construction. Due to the extreme difficulty the tall stone wall was completed last, but still within 10 mins of the other fences.

Results

All times are UTC+1.

Date	Fence	Stone Wall	Tall Stone Wall	Palisade
2010_06_09 20:00	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2010_06_10 20:20	0.47619048	0.47619048	0.0	0.47619048
2010_06_10 23:50	0.47619048	0.47619048	0.47619048	0.47619048
2010_06_11 02:32	0.47619048	0.95465934	0.47619048	0.47619048
2010_06_12 00:15	1.4354396	0.95465934	0.47619048	0.95465934
2010_06_12 14:23	1.4354396	1.4354396	0.95465934	1.4354396
2010_06_13 14:08	2.4040701	1.918565	1.4354396	1.918565
2010_06_13 21:45	2.4040701	2.4040701	1.918565	1.918565
2010_06_14 23:40	2.8919907	2.8919907	2.4040701	2.8919907
2010_06_15 15:00	2.8919907	2.8919907	2.8919907	3.3823626