Building a road network

[miggio]

It looks good martin

[Devil of Truth]

I agree with Martin that we should build a road between Pressburg and H Town first. That section has some traffic. However, a road between Graz and H Town is a close second.

Even with the difference between road movement and river movement, I think the links between CL and mapfipolis may be a bit of a luxury.

Besides that – great thread Martin

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

if we want to start out with a road between pressburg and h-town, then it should be placed directly south of pressburg, once we have more pw avaiable it can be enlongered (does that word exist?) directly south to graz for total costs of either 380 pw (going the shortway through the forrest, which i would prefer) or 300 when going around the wood. if you have a look at the map, this roadline will connect to h-town as well.

[Pedrunn]

We have PW to make one road. I think we should start the Graz - H Town road in the tile withou river. It will really be a great help.

Iskallin didnt show up yet?

[Locutus]

I think there are better things to spend our production on, but a road network *is* important. It will reduce capital distance penalties and facilitate troop movements. Therefore I suggest we create a reduced roadnetwork: only build roads where there are needed: only to connect the most important cities and where there is no river (or following the river creates unnecessary delay).

I propose a road from Pressburg to Pedrunnia, via Graz (and with that H Town too), as suggested in Martin's first two screenshots in red (except that the part from Pressburg to Wels should be scrapped). The cost of this would be 600 PW, the same as 3 Farms.

Roads over the river to Wels, mapfipolis and Colonia Locuta are, for the time being, a waste of resources and better spent on Farms and Mines. Our latest acquisition, Linz, is a little off-track but if we have some PW to spare we could consider a road through the Hills, from Linz to the main river (cost: an additional 520 PW).

[Frozzy]

On reading the wise words of CtP2 vets, I concur with locutus. A MAJOR road network would be nice, but Locutus' suggestion seems more feasible.

[child of Thor]

Do we have the PW to spare for Martins origonal plans, i would like to see lots of roads getting built(good enough for the Romans-so good enough for me!), but we should be careful to keep some PW back for emergancies for a little while yet. Maybe in key places first, then expand the network later.

[Immortal Wombat]

sod.

BUMP

[Pedrunn]

As the Minister of Defense, I would like to require a connection between Wien and Graz.

[Immortal Wombat]

As we have a good store of PW at the moment, I can allow the 580 needed for that connection providing we have another turn at 80% within the near future for farms, mines and trading posts.