Roads give movement bonus and NOTHING else?

[Hamil]

Hi everyone

I have found this statement in the pre-release information of civfanatics

"Roads and Rail-Roads will only provide a movement bonus to your units and nothing else. This has been done so the player does not have Roads and Rail-Roads on every tile later on (unlike in Civilization III)."

But there is no link to the site given the info. So my question is, can this be true ? If so, where does the info come from?

Greetings

[Blake]

That's how it works in SMAC.

Additionally in Civ4 they'll provide connections between cities for resource-distribution purposes.

edit: As far as I recall it's also how it worked in CTP/CTP2. Roads giving resource benefits is unique to civ 1,2 and 3.

[alva]

Try here

[Nikolai]

Why so bored?

[alva]

Was the most fitting smylie I could find.

[hexagonian]

Re: Roads give movement bonus and NOTHING else?

Originally posted by Hamil
I have found this statement in the pre-release information of civfanatics
"Roads and Rail-Roads will only provide a movement bonus to your units and nothing else. This has been done so the player does not have Roads and Rail-Roads on every tile later on (unlike in Civilization III)."

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!

[Adagio]

/me likes this change too

[alva]

Let's hope it's completely true!!!

[Cookie Monster]

If true then this will spell the end of the nasty road and railroad maze so common in Civ3.

[Adagio]

And if it's not true, we'll soon find a mod that makes it true I guess

[LordShiva]

But Nikolai the Road Spammer won't like it.

[prscormier]

Someone else had mentioned modding it such that you pay maintenace for roads. So you'd pay 1 gold for every so many road squares. Would be a mod I might like to try

[MattPilot]

Originally posted by prscormier
Someone else had mentioned modding it such that you pay maintenace for roads. So you'd pay 1 gold for every so many road squares. Would be a mod I might like to try

Most definitely

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by LordShiva


But Nikolai the Road Spammer won't like it.

Hehe...
Well, I'd hope it was worth building roads more than just from A to B, but I'm pretty sure I manage to live with this too. I guess I'll have lots of idle workers in the game anyway, and if it doesn't give anything to have roads, I'd think it doesn't cost anything either, so who knows.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by prscormier
Someone else had mentioned modding it such that you pay maintenace for roads. So you'd pay 1 gold for every so many road squares. Would be a mod I might like to try

I considered this too, don't remember who mentioned it though, but it's defently I mod I would like to try... that is if the AI can handle it