I wanted to know if you all who play in multiplayer would like a category for MASTER BUILDING.

This is to compete with your economic skills rather than fighting skills in this game.

We can come up with a (realistic for most experienced players) target army composition (like 40 pikes, 40 bowmen OR 30 swordfighters and 60 bowmen, etc.) for a particular map, and obviously the goal is to obtain the recruits and weapons (and horses) as fast as possible. Could be 40 minutes, 60 minutes, etc. to be able to train that army in the barracks.

For example, I could make a "mission" called "TSK 14 (53 pikes, 53 bows)" for (the only) master building that I have done so far: (where it would be easiest for me to verify as a mod that you obtained at least the required army weapons and recruits (it doesn't have to be perfectly balanced like mine was!) just by leaving all recruits and weapons in the barracks).

This way, those who like to improve their game in multiplayer can also participate on speedrun.

Here are some threads from the forum at knightsandmerchants.net with master building

• Bow challenge

• xBow challenge

• Scout challenge

• And this is an additional thread that many players might want to know exists is. (And there are several embedded attachments/replays in that thread. For those who are NOT members of knightsandmerchants.net, and/or for convenience, here is a zip file containing them. Note that these are for older versions of the remake. )

• And speaking of versions of the Remake, for THIS new (MP) category, we can most certainly accept newer versions of the Remake than r6720 (for those who didn't read that we only accept r5503 and r6720 for all existing events at the moment, due to insufficient testing of the AI for single player and co-op maps in the latest versions of the Remake).

I can make it so that you simply input the version number when you submit a run, OR the community can specify which versions for me to code into the page. Whatever you all think is FAIR to every participant! (For example, if in one version, the woodcutter has additional functions than a previous, that is obviously unfair . . . )

• We can also include some (challenging) single player map locations (and/or challenging maps) as well (like TSK 14, Barbarians, Two Sides, etc.). I guess they can be in a SP category, for those who like to "win single player maps in the normal/conventional way". We have room for both!

What do you all think? Let's discuss!