Do I have to build road to connect city with resoures like Civ 4?

[WinZero]

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Like horse , gem , wheat etc.

[Garravesh]

Nope.



roads play a different role in this game...connect your home capital with your other cities and rapid movement of your troops.....nothing else I have come across...They are expensive too......

theres a bonus to happiness if you do this with certain policies adapted as well..

[Netsurfer733]

What o.o

I thought you had to in order to connect the recources to your empire's "trade routes"?

[sakusen]

I would also like to know this. Are you sure that you don't have to build roads to improvements? Seriously, people who claim that the game hasn't been simplified are lying to them selves in my opinion.

[HARRY RUSS]

i like the part that there arent roads on any tile anymore. looks much better.
but is building a road on strat/luxury ressources necesary to get acces in the whole empire or not ? hmm..

[Zulljeen]

i like the part that there arent roads on any tile anymore. looks much better.
but is building a road on strat/luxury ressources necesary to get acces in the whole empire or not ? hmm..

not necessary... I had checked it yesterday... you just have to build an improvement


Seriously, people who claim that the game hasn't been simplified are lying to them selves in my opinion.

Completely agree

[Netsurfer733]

Really? Does it say this anywhere in the Civlopedia or anywhere?

[pillinjer]

Think of these roads as highways instead. In Civ 4 you needed roads to get the resources, but you also got a bonus of being able to move quickly near your cities (due to all those roads you needed).

With the camps, mines, etc taking the same role as the roads in Civ 4 for this purpose, plus you dont get the bonus of the quick movement of troops. At the same time roads now cost money to maintain (all those roadworks, rebuilding roads, etc), so you would never use resources unless you had to, or every resource would have to give you enough gold to pay for the road needed to run the resource.

It might be different, but to a certain degree it makes sense.

[MoistPancake]

I would also like to know this. Are you sure that you don't have to build roads to improvements? Seriously, people who claim that the game hasn't been simplified are lying to them selves in my opinion.

How does removing a pointless feature simplify the game? Clicking "auto-build improvements" and letting your workers build a bazzilion roads does not make the game anymore complex. It's not like building roads added any strategy in Civ IV

[sakusen]

Something that would make a lot of sense would be that if you are building a road to a resource it would make the workers build your improvements a lot faster and it would boost production of the resource even if you have to pay gold for the maintinece for the road. A fair trade. Gold for more horses or gold for more iron, food... etc.

[pillinjer]

however you still get the troop movement bonus, which is probably the thing they were trying to remove.

In real life, you don't use the motorway/freeway/autobahn to move your wheat to the nearby city, you use the local roads (which arent shown on the civ 5 map).

You do however move it to the next city once its back via lorry (equivalent to trade).

[Andoo]

Seriously, people who claim that the game hasn't been simplified are lying to them selves in my opinion.


I can't agree. Now you can't really spam everytile with roads/railroads otherwise your economy will suffer. You have to plan ahead strategicaly where to lay roads and where not to.

It also makes it hard to connect distant cities making them hard to be protected.

If you connect the roads efficiently though, you will get trade route golds and with Commerce policies you can actually earn alot of gold via traderouting.

I can't emphasize enough how much I like the new road system better. OH, and no more spaghetties!