White Arena Specs

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White arena needs 114 boulders to be completed.
The options are Sandstone and Limestone.

Since Sandstone is provided in Lufomir, it was an obvious choice to do use it and avoid any transport times.
But further calculations with my guildie Ken show that this is not the case.

Actually limestone is much quicker to extract and move through Tarasquan because of its much higher presence at Whitestone.
The original problem was the transportation through Tarasquan, which should be done with every megalithic structure alone. And 45 Encumbrance for walls etc is not an easy task. But... then we realised that monoliths are way too easier to transport than the actual megalithic.
For example limestone mono is 3 encumbrance while the foundation that requires 2 monos is 30... So, why not move the monos instead of the megas? That may be common knowledge to some but it was not known to us.

So, enough talk lets do the math:

SCENARIO A: ALL SANDSTONE on spot (Lufomir)
One sandstone monolith needs:
Extraction time: 10 cycles x 138 mins each = 1380 plus sleeping time around 1880mins
Cutting time: 570 mins (including sleep)
Total time for 1 sandstone mono: 2450 mins
Total time for 114 monos: 279300 mins

SCENARIO B: All LIMESTONE at White
One limestone monolith needs:
Extraction time: 7 cycles x 138 mins each = 966 plus sleeping time around 1316mins
Cutting time: 570 mins (including sleep)
Total time for 1 limestone mono: 1886 mins
Total time for 114 monos: 215004 mins
Transports needed: 114/12=10 (since 12*3=36, it can be achieved without a cart)
Total transport time: 10*2112 = 21120 (the transport time was calculated on a toon with 38 transportation effective)
Total time needed: 236124 mins

We don't put into calculation the megamasonry its the same anyway at both situations.
So, its clear that limestone is quicker.

Advantages of SCENARIO B :
quicker time
many alts can help without Nostria access

Disadvantages of SCENARIO B:
needs a Tarasquan domain
needs 10 big transports that will probably be able to be done from very few people in each guild (high transport needed, plus fighting at Tarasquan - problem can be solved if you have a lesser transporting alt move to Plains before main toon grabs them for Lufomir)

Thanks to Lyncea for initial conversation and Woody for last night's intriguing talk