I have noticed that bendy streets have less even spacing but I have to presume the relative difference remains.

In regards to tearing down and rebuilding, I’ve tested a little and it seems that generally if you tear down a building you can rebuild with another building of the same footprint most of the time. I tested tearing down some Grids and replacing them with cubics or honeycombs. I did this on ten buildings and nine of them worked. The other would not let me build another building of that density, but I could build a smaller footprint one (spear end) end then had a gap for a high reach.

Was the street you bassed this calculation on on a diagonal …or bendy?

Note even accounting for the ocasional gap that you allways get when actually building them it still doesnt add up with what i would expect for a 1kk road.

I purchased some straight east – west streets 1 in the 960k range 1 for 1.8kk and another 2.3kk (all my properties are straight east west streets so thats where my interest lies )

I wanted to test the assertion from TheDonch above that the number of buildings you can place on a road depends on the Size property he has given…..

my conclusion is that it does not and that it rather depends on the footprint.

With the shorter street i counted the number of cones available for each building type..the number of slots available follows the same pattern as the footprint size …namely a grid, nori place, and qubic could all be placed the same number of times. however if you look at their sizes the grid has a much smaller size….and the polyhedron which has the same size given as the nori place could be placed significantly more times.

If i had to hazard a guess i could imagine that the size parameter was there to contribute towards the density calculations that were originaly intended to be included.

An interesting aside to this was that On the two longer roads i repeated the process but just counted cones for the City Centre, Grid, and Tri Rectangle Buildings….for both the the price per base unit cam out to be around $320…

It wouldnt surprise me if the same cost per base unit is applied to all streets longer than 1kk….and that is how the street purchase price is determined….(ok its morelikely determined bassed on length information from the Open maps data, but so too is the placement of cones…so they are strongly correlated)

Once all your streets are filled and tax restricts you buying more, then it is a valid plan to demolish and replace existing buildings with more expensive ones. I would still not go right for the most expensive. It would still may be more efficient to sell and rebuild twice.

E.g. look at the honeycomb. At size 10 the easiest way to sell and rebuild is to look at other property of the same size. The next 3 buildings in the ranking at that size (ignoring cheaper buildings) are Cubic (2000/950), Opaque (2800/1100) and Brouette (15000/2500). Once all my streets are full the best possible return would be to sell honeycombs and buy cubics, then repeat with opaques, then with brouette’s. Given the time horizon of the game this is probably needlessly anal, as the actual delta would be marginal.

Here’s a link to the workings out to 120 days btw
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tfhubJhQK5WrSdKVOnPTQPA&output=html

The game is supposed to continue longer than 30 days….what does it look like at 60 days? or 90 days

But just looking at static future forecasts doesnt tell you the full story either. Because with the street tax you are only likely to hold between 5 and 20 streets. Which means that at some point you may find that you are tearing down buildings to put up improved ones. With cheaper buildings that fill upyour streets quickly the lifetime of the building itself is reduced. Since you will run out of space faster and be required to start replacing them earlier.

Another point related to the street tax that i havent seen raised in discussions to date is the effect that it has on the over all rental return of a portfolio. Is it better to purchase a new street and fill it with building X or is it better to replace some of the cheaper buildings on an existing street. which will raise Net income the most?

…ok its all my gut feelings, but they are the gut feelings of another self confessed stats nerd