Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1565 Drafting Engineering Design Standards Advancement Society Sixth Collective Meeting
The problem of the energy transmission line discovered by Xia Duo is not a theoretical omission, but an engineering problem.

Before, he only considered how to add requirements, and he was somewhat negligent in the process of transforming requirements into reality. Now that he simulated it in high-fidelity, he found that many of his previous ideas were a bit too idealistic.

Take the issue of energy transmission lines for example. Since multiple sets of redundant systems need to be set up, the energy transmission lines of the actual material must be clearly defined and well-arranged, and the core lines involving multiple sets of redundant systems cannot be distributed together.

Otherwise, it would be easy for a group of adventurers to break into the spaceship and destroy a screw at will (exaggeration), as often performed in hometown movies, causing the entire spaceship to explode.

Movies can certainly do this in order to highlight a drama, but reality requires as high a fault tolerance rate as possible, and it is best to maintain most of the functions with only a piece of wreckage left.

Xia Duo was designed in this way, so many redundant systems were produced, but more focus on spell design, less consideration was given to engineering design.

In fact, because the Floating Void City is a special creation with complex functions and huge volume that has never existed before, Xia Duo hasn't even finished the spell design yet!

All that has been completed so far is probably only the first phase of the "main construction and repair and maintenance system", and the rest is still being explored.

No, just after the simulation simulation, many problems were discovered, the most serious of which was the problem of energy line distribution.

Fortunately, everything is still at the starting point, and adjustments and improvements can keep up in time.

Sometimes Xia Duo really wants to ask himself, is it necessary to be so serious?Just cut off a mountain peak and put it in the sky, isn't it the simplest floating city?

And it can also act as a deterrent.

Not to mention anything else, just smashing down half of the mountain directly is comparable to a world-destroying magic. Except for the three countries of Comanthor, Yerlan, and Ilfaran, other countries in the Northland, even Netheril It may not be able to stop it.

But even the Three Kingdoms of Cormanthor would have to pay a heavy price if they wanted to stop such a mountain. After all, they would not be foolish enough to choose broad daylight when they fell down.

In addition, methods such as disappearing and avoiding detection must also be called out. When they are discovered, it is almost impossible to avoid disasters without paying any price.

Unless you know in advance that there is a "meteorite falling from the sky" trick, at least you can prepare in advance to minimize losses as much as possible.

It would be a tragedy if he didn't know beforehand. Apart from relying on God, Xia Duo really couldn't think of any good results.

It's just that this method cannot be used as a conventional attack, otherwise there will be no lower limit for each other, and the Northland may be destroyed.

Xia Duo has always been thinking about the Floating Void City, and to some extent he is also worried about the enemy falling from the sky. The ground targets are too obvious, and the target is clear, so he can only passively guard against it, which is too aggrieved.

Although it is also possible to build strategic-level protections such as "nuclear bunkers" on the ground, as long as the ground attributes remain unchanged, they are still passive.

Therefore, what Xia Duo wanted was to move most of the factories, schools, research institutes and other institutions to the floating city, and only retain agriculture, tourism and a few functions on the ground.

In this way, even the elves may no longer be able to use any environmental protection excuses to attack humans.

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In the study, Xia Duo kept thinking about the projection, but what he was thinking at the moment was not how to plan the energy transmission line more reasonably, but whether to outsource part of the design of the floating city.

Because he found that if he does it alone, there will always be some problems that he can't take care of, especially in engineering design, which requires not only knowledge but also experience.

Some of Netheril's magic building designs in the past did not need to consider many engineering design issues because of their simple functions.

Only in this way, most of the buildings are full of the personal characteristics of the designers. If it’s just the appearance, it doesn’t matter, but the internal spell design and engineering design are also full of personal characteristics, which brings a lot of trouble to the later maintenance. Big trouble.

Basically, for every additional mage's creation, one more maintenance plan needs to be learned.

At present, the popularity rate of magic equipment, facilities, and buildings in Netheril is not very high. In the future, it can be said that there will be no purely ordinary creations, and they will basically have something to do with magic.

If there is no relatively unified standard, then the maintenance cost in the later stage will definitely drag down the development of civilization.

In other words, the development of civilization is to reduce internal friction, so a relatively uniform standard is needed.

Whether it's spell design or engineering design!

With this in mind, Xia Duo decided to write a "Magical Architecture and Facilities Engineering Design Standards". It happened that the Floating Void City involved all aspects, and the exploration in practice was also in line with Xia Duo's consistent philosophy.

Anyway, he never thought that a floating city would last for a lifetime, and it would definitely be updated. Even the one he designed now can be regarded as a "test city".

As for spell design standards, the Tower of Time has initially formed a set of standards so far. It is based on the apprentice textbook compiled by Xia Duo. The design itself will not have too many problems, even for other mage towers. Do more is to standardize the process.

For this Floating City project, it is not impossible to write a "Spell Design Standard" by the way.

Thinking in this way, Xia Duo quickly made a decision in his mind. He removed the projector and took out a brand new blank notebook, started to split the project, and wrote the requirements and specifications of the project.

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Two days later.

The sixth collective meeting of the Advancement Society was grandly held at the No. [-] conference hall on the public floor of the Tower of Time.

Participants included 45 regular members, 92 probationary (full) members, 268 associate members (development targets), and 412 activists who have submitted their application for membership to the Advancement Society and are in the probationary period.

It can be said that most of the new apprentices are people who entered the academy!
When Xia Duo came to the venue, he saw the black head and those pairs of fanatical eyes, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and an inexplicable sense of déjà vu came to his heart.

After being reminded by Dean, he came back to his senses, waved to everyone, and then sat down safely at the round table in the center of the venue.

Xia Duo didn't have the habit of being the last to appear on the stage. Today he came neither early nor late. Not all 45 official members came, almost half of them came.

However, after he came out, the entry speed seemed to be a lot faster. While looking at the familiar or unfamiliar faces in the field, Xia Duo recalled the latest information on the members of the Advancement Society that he had just seen yesterday.

After a while, all the official members arrived, and later all the participants also arrived one after another.

(End of this chapter)