What is unique about investing into the stonemason tree?

[KingEin 0]

Is there any reason to currently advance in the stonemason tree? Any unique items for campaign? Anything better then they can do over someone without anything invested?

[veeshan 1,918]

atm no.

I beleive there gonna allow some kind of player building in the campaign at some stage in some way which then stonemason will be much more important.

[PopeUrban 4,338]

Creating higher tier ek structures unlocks more visual variations, currently just for castles but in the future this should be for most ek buildings.

As well, we have been told that higher rank EK parcels and structures built by stonemasons will have economic advantages in terms of requiring less upkeep both through a lower base tax rate on structures and city parcels and an increased supply of upkeep by resource parcels.

They have also teased bits of info about possibly creating crafting stations with bonuses that would scale up with quality as well as factories with better properties when made at higher quality.

EK taxation and upkeep is not in the game yet at all, and EK stuff is on the back burner at the moment so currently these factors are only cosmetic.