Roads and Lands plan document

[Soma]

Here is a bunch of ideas for a possible mod.

Let me give a highlight on it:

ROADS AND LANDS

This mod aims at to give roads a more significant and realistic role. Coming from the realistic concept of road, such elements as tile improvements in city area and in the country, crossing rivers, separate imperial and economic road come into the picture.
Imperial road means supply for the units. There will be thus concept of attrition, and blocking of supply.
This involves forts and strongholds, which are important by their own right, too.
In the end, some ideas deal with units of military and the settler.

I. Economic roads and improvements of the land

I/1/a. Economic roads
I/1/b. Pillaging tiles in city area
I/2. Improvement of country (non-city area) tiles
I/3. Brigands capturing resource supply
I/3/a Captures and Trade
I/4. Blocking of resource supply by enemy unit
I/5. Pillaging of improvement out of city-area

II. Imperial roads

II/1. Creation of imperial road
II/2. Economic function of imperial road
II/3. Imperial road as means of supply

III. River crossing and Bridges

III/1. Crossing a river without bridging
III/2/a. Construction of a bridge
III/2/b. Destroying a bridge

IV. Forts and Strongholds

IV/1. The number of forts and strongholds
IV/2. Building and destroying of fort or stronghold
IV/3. Fort or stronghold as military base
IV/4 Fort or stronghold in peace - production
IV/5. Fort or stronghold as means to block supply
IV/6. Stronghold producing economy - the manor improvement
IV/7. Stronghold as cultural unit

V. Supply and attrition

V/1. Presence of supply
V/2/a. Supply blocked on land
IV/2/b. Supply by harbor
IV/2/c. Supply by ship
IV/3. Attrition - the result of lack of supply
IV/4. Starvation of units in own fort/stronghold or city
IV/5. The Medic I promotion

VI. Military units

there may be no idea here (on number restrictions)

VII Settler

VII/1 Settler and population

[Grave]

I think the idea is neat.... but in reality, a road is a road. You could make the road tile do all of the things that the Imperial and Economic roads do.

Here's a thought: Perhaps upon discovering certain techonlogies, you can get more use out of a road? Like an extra movement point, increase trade bonus, etc? Plus perhaps certain wonders will allow bonus to roads, too?

The blocking supply idea is great. It reminds me of the naval blockades in BtS now.

[about roads]

grave said:

I think the idea is neat.... but in reality, a road is a road. You could make the road tile do all of the things that the Imperial and Economic roads do.

Main idea behind all this R and L thing is that roads could (should?) have
a more tactical part in the game - concerning military.

This is why there is a suggested Imperial road,
which would give military units road movement, supply.

Imperial roads should not be many, and should be precious,
something that is to take into account when planning war.

(I don't like that fact that all tiles get road
- it makes roads lacking any tactical value whatsoever
- makes the map like a skateboard for the units...
- and also attrition is a more exciting feature when roads giving supply is not so abundant...
- and it is ugly looking, too, to have all tiles with such road ...)

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But I am willing to make the creation of Imperial roads as easy as can be,
perhaps following can be changed as to the plan:

- Forts also can have IRV value of 1, thus you can easily make a an imperial road between
two cities that has IRV 2 and are as much as 7 tiles away:
you put a fort (or a stronghold) inbetween the two in the middle.

- There should be no waiting time for an Imperial road to be realized - once it has passed the checks,
it can turn to be real in the same turn.

[Soma]

The post before me was, well, from me...
(I just have to get used to things here around)

[toft]

I agree that roads on every tile is sad, and that roads should have more tactical meaning. Couldnt a maintenance cost be added to every tile that has a road? Very small of course, but just so that you would think twice before spamming roads