Make construction speed depended on building height.

[Sipke82]

I love the realism the lowered construction speed gives, perhaps we can extend this even further by decreasing the construction speed if buildings get taller. In the image above, you can see low density pub and a high rise office, their construction started at the same day.

[dymanoid]

A deep investigation shows that it's actually not possible without a great effort. Since this doesn't add any real value to the mod, I decided to not implement this. Having too many method patches only for such a tiny feature seems unreasonable to me.

[originalfoo]

Instead of building height, what about building level?

For example, if we assume low density level 1 takes X time to build, then:

Density	Level	Multiplier
Low	1	1 * x
Low	2	1.1 * x
Low	3	1.2 * x
Low	4	1.3 * x
Low	5	1.5 * x
High	1	1.8 * x
High	2	1.9 * x
High	3	2.1 * x
High	4	2.5 * x
High	5	3.0 * x

Building type (RICO) could apply some additional multiplier, for example:

• Residential: 1.0
• Commerce: 1.1
• Industry:
  • Generic: 1.2
  • Oil: 1.3
  • Ore: 1.5
  • Farming: 1.0
  • Forestry: 0.8
• Office: 1.6

Multiplier values above are just guesstimates, some trial and error would be required to get nice values.

[dymanoid]

The thing is, introducing any logic that differs from "return some constant value for all buildings" will cause a performance drop. I did not measure the real impact, however.

Furthermore, I must admit that I was wrong about my assumptions: there is a way to get the target building height without additional patches. So theoretically, this can be implemented in scope of Real Time.

I move this issue back to the Real Time repo.