shouldn't removing forest add to improvement build time?

[Drakken]

When you remove forest or jungle at the time of building a farm or other improvement it doesn't add to the workers time spent. I thought in earlier versions this function was working. Did this change with 1.52?

A peek into the buildinfos.xml file shows this for farm improvements:

<BuildInfo>
<Type>BUILD_FARM</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_BUILD_FARM</Description>
<Help/>
<PrereqTech>TECH_AGRICULTURE</PrereqTech>
<iTime>500</iTime>
<bKill>0</bKill>
<ImprovementType>IMPROVEMENT_FARM</ImprovementType>
<RouteType>NONE</RouteType>
<EntityEvent>ENTEVENT_IRRIGATE</EntityEvent>
<FeatureStructs>
<FeatureStruct>
<FeatureType>FEATURE_JUNGLE</FeatureType>
<PrereqTech>TECH_IRON_WORKING</PrereqTech>
<iTime>400</iTime>
<iProduction>0</iProduction>
<bRemove>1</bRemove>
</FeatureStruct>
<FeatureStruct>
<FeatureType>FEATURE_FOREST</FeatureType>
<PrereqTech>TECH_BRONZE_WORKING</PrereqTech>
<iTime>250</iTime>
<iProduction>30</iProduction>
<bRemove>1</bRemove>
</FeatureStruct>
</FeatureStructs>
<HotKey>KB_I</HotKey>
<bAltDown>0</bAltDown>
<bShiftDown>0</bShiftDown>
<bCtrlDown>0</bCtrlDown>
<iHotKeyPriority>0</iHotKeyPriority>
<Button>,Art/Interface/Buttons/Builds/BuildFarm.dds,Art/Interface/Buttons/Actions_Builds_LeaderHeads_Specialists_Atlas.dds,3,7</Button>
</BuildInfo>


Note the build time for the farm is 500. the build time next to the forest feature is 250 and jungle is 400. In the game however these do not add together. Is this an error or WAD?

I would like to change to make this additive. After all clearing a huge forest to build farmland should take much longer than just building farm on already suitable land! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[zyphyr]

In game they most certainly do add. Just hover your cursor over the various buttons while in and out of forests and look at the listed times.

 

[chronos00]

Zyphyr is right. I used to cut trees at 3 or 4 turns then build a farm or whatever in 4 or 5 turns. I then noticed that I could build a farm over woods in 7 or 8 turns, in essence you are cuing your worker to do both and getting the benefit of lumber at the end.

By the way, make sure you calculate when the lumber/shields gets added to whatever you are building with one or two turns to spare, this way you maximize lumber usage.