[+++][B] City Engineer: Road Construction counts as 2 Tasks

[Wish']

 

[Coke]

I tried to explain this to the job developer long time ago, it turns out road construction is for earning money, and house construction is for XP.

We need output from @Senza

[Metall]

Good idea, road construction part is way more enjoyable than the house construction in the long term but as you said takes longer time to do, buffing the XP won't do any harm. 

[Denos]

I tried to explain this to the job developer long time ago, it turns out road construction is for earning money, and house construction is for XP.

We need output from Senza

If anything maybe make it a choice, where you can choose extra money or double xp.

[InVadeR]

fair enough 

[Violet]

Road construction missions take longer than house building missions, which is why they pay more money as a reward. However, it is still in the process of becoming semi-active, and it appears nice to me, thats why I am L10 at it. I agree that providing you 2 xp will have no effect on the house building mission or whatever its name is.
That's needed tbh.

[gq]

Fair idea, I wanna see this one on the server and enjoy it, I'm going Positive.

[ValHalla]

Good idea

[Denos]

Road construction missions take longer than house building missions, which is why they pay more money as a reward. However, it is still in the process of becoming semi-active, and it appears nice to me, thats why I am L10 at it. I agree that providing you 2 xp will have no effect on the house building mission or whatever its name is.
That's needed tbh.

I hardly see anyone doing road construction now, houses best way to get promoted, but so boring.

[Ace]

Suggestion is simple. Since Road Construction takes way longer than Houses, should count as 2 Tasks.

I timed myself doing both, I am L7, so I know how to do it well.

House: I can build house between 2:40-2:45 (min:sec)
Road Construction: One road is usually just over 5 min (last timed I did was 5:15)

Thoughts?

So I've actually had this idea on my mind myself for about two weeks, I even recorded some videos as evidence to argue my case, but I've been too busy to get around to making this thread.

I'm well past L10 city engineer, and I've been practising both kinds of task to get them as fast as possible. Please see the following statistics and videos:

Fastest house construction: 2 minutes and 11 seconds

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Fastest road construction: 4 minutes and 17 seconds

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That is to say that Road construction takes approximately 2x the time as house construction, even when power gaming them.

I have no hesitation in putting my full support behind this suggestion, and had you not have made it, I would have made it myself today.

Positive   

[Private]

I became L10 City Engineer just by doing house tasks, because road construction takes too long and isn't rewarding well for it's time.

Your suggestion makes sense. Positive 

[Ace]

I became L10 City Engineer just by doing house tasks, because road construction takes too long and isn't rewarding well for it's time.

Your suggestion makes sense. Positive 

This thread isn't really about the rewards, though, it's about the progress.
if we take our 131 seconds for house construction and 247 seconds for road construction as a guide, we see the following:

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55,440 / 131 = 423$ / second
90,720 /247 = 367$ / second
So you are correct that road construction appears to be underpaying for the time that it takes, relative to house construction, however I don't think this is what denos was going for in this thread.

Edit: please note, I didn't control for pms in these calculations, your mileage may vary. Also note that this doesnt account for travel times which are a factor in road construction but not in house contruction.

[Jaguar.]

 

[Elysia]

 

[Private]

This thread isn't really about the rewards, though, it's about the progress.
if we take our 131 seconds for house construction and 247 seconds for road construction as a guide, we see the following:

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55,440 / 131 = 423$ / second
90,720 /247 = 367$ / second
So you are correct that road construction appears to be underpaying for the time that it takes, relative to house construction, however I don't think this is what denos was going for in this thread.

Edit: please note, I didn't control for pms in these calculations, your mileage may vary. Also note that this doesnt account for travel times which are a factor in road construction but not in house contruction.

I didin't intend to mean the money thing, which is the first thing someone would think by seeing the word reward, but actually the fact you get 1 task for the time you spent constructing a road (what Denos said). I don't know if that phrase I used in my previous post is seen in English, since it's not my main language, but in mine we have it.