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Building goals are somehow like schools of thought in RA2 building, or more precisely what your building aims at. There are a few different styles that builders adhere to, or not.

Styles of building are somehow like schools of thought in RA2 building, or more precisely what your building aims at. There are a few different styles that builders adhere to, or not.  

This style is mostly preoccupied by efficiency, although it can have any of the other goals (most often originality or competitive building, but rule of cool can happen as well). It seeks to use the best setups of the best components to build something interesting. It often frowns upon the use of useless components. They are not as much as a goal as the other ones, and do not believe in efficiency for efficiency's sake, but merely in efficiency for building's sake.

This style is mostly preoccupied by building efficiency. It seeks to use the best setups of the best components to build something interesting or good. It often frowns upon the use of useless components.

'''Figurehead:''' [[Joeblo]], '''Followers''': Thyrus, Clickbeetle

IRL building is characterized by building bots that could be made and could work in real life, and look like real life bots. Often they are poor battlers compared to most other bots because of lack of wedges or good weapons.

== Originality's Sake ==

'''Figurehead''': [[MikeNCR]], '''Followers:''' [[Thyrus (User)|Thyrus]], [[dragonsteincole]]

An original builder builds new designs, creates new bot types, and is generally highly respected.

'''Figurehead:''' [[JoeBlo]], '''Followers''': Thyrus, Clickbeetle

== Strictly Competitive Building ==

== Exploratory ==

This style is known to care mostly about combat effectiveness. Most bots built like that are intensively tested and rebuilt, and are generally nightmares to face in the arena.

This styles seeks innovation, never-before-seen builds. an exploratory builder seeks for new designs, creates new bot types, and is generally highly respected.

'''Figurehead:''' [[Starcore]], '''Followers''': [[123STW]] (in the past), [[Urjak]]

'''Figurehead:''' [[Clickbeetle]] '''Followers''' : Venko

== Exploration ==

== No style ==

This style is somehow random, and mostly followed by newcomers (but not only). The goal here is "what is this going to do ?" rather than "how can I make this bot ?" Most bots of these are random ideas and not really good, but some can be very good new ideas, as well cornerstones for a new bot type. [[Madman3]] is an example of a member whose random idea became a strong new bot type.

When a builder starts building in ra2, most often they have no well-defined style, and they just... build stuff. They will most often develop into another style via contact with other builders or natural growth.

'''Followers:''' Nearly every builder at the start of their careers. People than want to learn more about the game.

'''Followers:''' Nearly every builder at the start of their careers.