# Desktop Tuesday: The Engineer

**URL:** <https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/desktop-tuesday-the-engineer/23517>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** desktop\_tuesday\
**Created:** [June 28, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/desktop-tuesday-the-engineer/23517 "2016-06-28T18:18:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brendan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Brendan](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Brendan)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/desktop-tuesday-the-engineer/23517/61 "2016-07-06T16:30:47Z")

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> [@Dwalus](#):
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> In that case, I don’t think either of us has a chance to convince the other of his own point of view. I’m quite certain the game has well over two hours of gameplay. Are you rushing through it? Are you using templates and and not designing any buildings yourself?

Quite the opposite.

I decided I want my kingdom to be as awesome as possible (I always do). There’s only a limited amount of ores on the map, so I wanted to make sure I could collect/mine all of it (eventually). My plan was to build a huge fort in the middle of the map; but starting with that is inefficient (too much time wasted for miners/haulers to walk between middle of map to/from the corners of the map). For this reason I decided it’d be best to start with a temporary camp in one corner, terraform that corner, then shift camp to the next corner and do that area, and so on; then start building my fort in the middle after the “distant corners” were done.

The result? 45 hearthlings with most civilians trained to level 6 in at least 2 different roles (including 3 engineers) and most military trained to level 6 in 4 roles (either farmer, footman, knight, archer; or herbalist, cleric, footman, archer), everyone with the best equipment they can have, every recipe and role unlocked, all quests that couldn’t be postponed completed (all except the “gong quests” - was saving them for “end game”), all stockpiles replaced with golden vaults, etc. I hadn’t even finished 25% of the first corner, and didn’t build a single building - it was just a temporary initial camp.

Note: if you want to see for yourself; a slightly earlier version of this world was uploaded here: [Military Won't Patrol (Release 566) - #9 by Brendan](http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/military-wont-patrol-release-566/23581/9)

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