Pathfinding/ Road Discussion

[Dwalus]

Wasn’t your last thread locked?

Roads anyone here

When will we have access to roads? Would be nice to have different types of roads, like the first one would be created when people walk on a line for a many times, the second one would be cobble stone and the third would be something more smooth like a slab? the first one would be like the one in timber and stone.

Also, there is this:

Will there be roads?

Will there be (functioning) roads? Will they improve the speed of your people or just be cosmetic? If so, will they emerge automatically by well-trodden paths, or do you need build them yourself? And if there will be roads, will the roads be upgradeable or maybe even autoupgrade? (One feature I really liked about Settlers 2 (which this game reminds me a lot of) was that roads that were used a lot would eventually upgrade to darker roads (and add pack animals), it was a very good way to visua…

Pathfinding/ Road Discussion

The question was already asked nearly a year ago in the first couple of weeks of the Kickstarter whether or not there would be roads. A response to this at the time was: "We want our pathfinder to take into account the type of terrain, so there’ll be a cost, maybe the cost of traversing a road is half the cost of traversing grass which is half the cost of traversing rocky terrain. " A year on and with some discussion on roads re-emerging I think it’d be interesting to open a new thread pertain…