There are units that can build roads btw.

I'm going to lose sleep if you don't elaborate.  I should probably mention I work as an air traffic controller.  No pressure, though.

@GFireflyE:  While I personally have absolutely no problem with the engineers build roads micro idea, I REALLY like the idea you put forward. It places emphasis on the fact that roads are tools that cities use to interact with their surroundings.

The current system is awful. Not sorta bland, not irritating. Awful.

Caravans Blocking Movement = Awful

Friendly Caravans should not block movement. ENEMY caravans shouldn't be able to move through your territory, period. Can you imagine if Iran put tanker trucks of their oil on US soil? We would snatch that up so fast their heads would spin.....

AI not choosing to use roads when it is way faster = Awful

Wasting three to four turns moving through woods or swamp when there is a road that would do the movement in one turn is really lame.

AI choosing to use roads when it is way slower = Awful.

Wasting three turns moving on a road when one turn across grassland would get you there is also lame.

Not being able to connect nearby cities with roads, leaving the only connection turns out of the way through another city = Awful.

Much like the above. Having to move three turns through a city on roads so you don't have to move three turns through forest when a road would make it one turn is very very poor.

In short, players need, NEED, at the very least to be able to dictate when roads are constructed (if at all), which general routes those roads take, and be able to destroy those roads if they no longer go anywhere useful.

I believe there are two champions that can build roads.

Huh. Consider my mind blown.

Still, cant really count on getting those guys. I don't think I've ever even seen them.  :/  But it is a good indicator that maybe units like that could more easily become available in a future build.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I put a lot of thought into it. . My head huts....

However, Frogboy recently mentioned that there will be a unit that can build (and I assumed destroy) roads coming up ...

Kinda unfortunately, cause I really didn't like the road micromangement that the civ games always had. Stupid AI would build roads on every stinking tile. There should be penalty by doing that...

Anyways, Frogboy, if your listening in....check out the idea. Maybe it's worth something to you...maybe not...

I'm in it for the best TBS ever!

Looks like this is somewhat addressed in 0.951

Fallen Enchantress 0.951 Changelog

By Derek Paxton on August 26, 2012 1:47:49 PM from  Elemental Forums

That's cool, but I really want to see this as something available to everyone, regardless of race or the champions they have. At least make it an accessible early-mid game tech.

It's something unpleasant about the playability of game in general, in my opinion. There needs to be a *general* solution, not something that makes something in the game less painful *if* you play a certain race.  That seems to me like making only one race get mousover interface information.

I was kinda hoping they wouldn't go this route. Having a road building unit is just going to encourage road-spamming.

'Road Segment' building would eliminate that as any two points (a point being a city or outpost you control) could only have one road, and you wouldn't have a choice in how it was built....only if it is built.

I have more details in my First FE Games thread...but bottom line is that I think it would be really nice if you could enchant the roads connected to your city via the essence mechanic that has been made available.

EDIT: oops. I forget how much I'm checking out these threads these day...I already posted my idea on the previous page. Don't want to sound pushy about the idea....just really think it would work well, all considering...

Yay!