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Physics model choice depends on your game's goals: arcade physics (like Fortnite) prioritizes responsiveness and player control, while heuristic approaches (like Rust) favor simulation depth. This Skill provides decision frameworks comparing real-world implementations across Fortnite, Rust, Valheim, Minecraft, No Man's Sky, and Satisfactory to guide your architecture.

Grid placement ensures alignment and faster placement but limits creativity; free placement offers flexibility but increases complexity and collision handling. This Skill analyzes placement strategies from major games with structured metrics and decision matrices to help you evaluate which fits your design goals.

Multiplayer authority determines where building validation occurs (client or server), affecting latency, cheating resistance, and bandwidth. This Skill provides cross-referenced decision frameworks from established games showing functional and technical requirements to support rapid, evidence-based architecture choices.

Decay systems balance player retention against server burden. This Skill references how Rust, Valheim, and others implement decay and maintenance mechanics with structured metrics, helping you align your persistence strategy with gameplay and technical constraints.

Arcade physics can work for simulation games if responsiveness matters more than strict realism. This Skill compares arcade versus heuristic approaches across real games, showing trade-offs so you can validate whether arcade physics fits your specific design goals and player expectations.

This Skill provides a structured reference of real-world building systems from Fortnite, Rust, Valheim, Minecraft, No Man's Sky, and Satisfactory, covering physics models, placement strategies, multiplayer architecture, and decay systems with decision frameworks and metrics.