Empirical Evaluation of Fences

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

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 minutes 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
2010_06_16 13:55 3.3823626 3.8752234 3.3823626 3.8752234
2010_06_17 17:15 3.8752234 4.370611 4.370611 4.370611
2010_06_18 00:01 3.8752234 4.868565 4.370611 4.370611
2010_06_19 00:50 4.370611 5.369126 4.868565 5.369126
2010_06_19 18:04 4.868565 5.872334 5.369126 5.872334
2010_06_20 21:25 5.369126 6.8868647 5.872334 6.3782325
2010_06_21 21:10 5.872334 6.8868647 6.3782325 6.8868647
2010_06_22 20:15 6.3782325 7.9125104 6.8868647 7.3982754
2010_06_23 15:40 6.8868647 8.429617 7.3982754 7.9125104
2010_06_24 02:36 6.8868647 8.949644 7.9125104 7.9125104
2010_06_25 01:05 7.9125104 9.472641 8.429617 8.429617
2010_06_26 00:50 7.9125104 9.472641 8.949644 8.949644
2010_06_26 18:10 8.429617 9.998659 9.472641 9.472641
2010_06_27 13:40 8.429617 10.527752 9.998659 9.472641
2010_07_07 18:00 14.322269 16.567505 15.437484 16.000607