Good thing is, Team Radiant are getting through alphas like theres no tomorrow!
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that is a complete guess i actually have no idea but alpha 9 or 10 is blacksmith and ores and after that is combat but i think theyâll either go on to water animals or a new race or the three different kinds of humans and through out that there will be combat updates
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Letâs just say I have another project now⌠Look forward to the Discourse next week.
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love the idea of bridgesâŚ
donât know whether this should be tied to a class, which unlocks a new building template(s), that the player can adjust before commencing the build, just as we can with the housing templatesâŚ
or if we should just have some tweaks to the building UI that enable for more âfinesseâ in our designsâŚ
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Engineer / mason IMHO. Sinking proper bridge foundations & such is a little more complex than âfour walls, some dried rushes & a roofâ after all 
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I forgot about the engineer
What about the Architect? They secretly included that class in the code a few months back. The Engineer weâve been seeing seems to fall more under chemistry and mechanics, rather than construction.
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I think youâd want both for bridge construction, especially if waterâs involved 
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Maybe the engineer is the solution for the tech oriantated factions and maybe magic can be the solution for others. There were plans to implement magic to the game if i am right. So how about that. Everything can be solved with a bit of magic 
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Engineer: âYES!! Letâs go and blow up that river with this new-fangled invention I came up with called âgunpowderâ! That thing wonât know what hit it!! Telling me not to build a structure thereâŚâ
âhilarity ensuesâ
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Kappas.
Captured voxel Kappas could build them.
They live in water and you could pay them in cucumbers.
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Okay, so Iâve made a few jokes here and there about ladder-placing engineers. But Iâve been taking a few engineering-related classes in high school, and guess what Iâve had to solve? Trusses. Stuff like this.
But what have I learned from that, besides that solving trusses is long, boring, and tedious? Well, I know engineers have to design bridges. And while engineers building bridges is a bit of a stretch, in a world where carpenters help with building wooden buildings, it seems slightly reasonable. Iâm guessing roads and bridges will be somewhat tied together, so engineers might have a hand in that as well. (Well, there are real-life traffic engineers.) Maybe you can make basic roads without an engineer, but if you want to make bridges or otherwise get fancyâŚ
âŚyouâre going to need the ladder-placing skills of the engineer.
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To be honest, Iâm still not sold. Iâm not denying that there are engineers involved with bridges, traffic, etc.âfar from it. But there are a LOT of different engineering categories. We really havenât had any indication that the Engineer in Stonehearth is intended for those sorts of fields; from the description weâve been given, it seems far more likely to fall into chemical/demolition engineering with gunpowder and mechanical engineering with the mention of steam power, traps, and other devices. I feel like bridges are going to be treated a little more generically, falling to the building classes (Carpenter, Architect, Mason, etc.).
Thatâs not to say I canât see the Engineer getting involved. If itâs a working drawbridge or a static bridge with movable portions (such as those for water traffic), then yes, I can completely see our Engineer being a critical component. For a regular wood or stone-based bridge? It might get too confusing or restrictive to the player, since the Engineer sounds like a much later-game element then when you would start needing bridges.
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Maybe I should just make a mod where engineers do everything. Want to make cloth? Sorry, youâll need a materials research engineer first. Or maybe⌠a whole civilization of engineers! ( It might be a good idea for @SteveAdamo to restrain me before I launch an attack at Radiantâs castle to rename the game Engineerhearth, and rename them Radiant Ladder-placing, Inc.)
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Patience, patience. Weâll get those Engineers eventually. And weâll be able to bask in the technological glory.
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