A tiny question regarding roads in Civ 5

[oops2001]

Hii
I am new to the Civ series and after watching few video tutorials I could figure out what I have to do and what is what to some extent.

At this point, a little thing I would like to ask
In the tutorials video the person (who posted the videos) said 'roads are mostly used to connect cities only, dont make them on every tile(inside your borders) as it costs gold per turn to maintain them'

I would like to know when do we need to build roads inside our borders (or on a tile and if it is a good practise) ( or we dont need to?)

Another question:

If We connect a resource (say ivory) through a road to our city and that resource tile is outside our borders, would it be available to the city? and we will be building a road over the ivory resource tile or we will start from the adjacent tile all the way upto the city's adjacent tile ( or we have to make road on the city tile too?)

Thank You

 

[baronck]

Hi Oops,

1) the only reason why you would need to build outside your boarders is to connect it to a city-state (a road request by them). after you complete the road you can easily tell your worker to bury the road.

2) no, you need to have your boarder on the resource in order to obtain it.

 

[oops2001]

Thanks Baronck,
Do we need to build roads inside our borders too, I mean sometimes or if it benefits any tiles or improvements if we make roads inside our borders or like that as I have seen that other Civs makes lots of roads inside their own borders like a mesh. Why would they do that? Just for a faster movements within their borders(or outside too?)?

Adding another Question here..
If one luxury resource is available to one city and that city is connected to three other cities through roads, would that resource be available to these three cities also. ( as I have seen that few cities demands some things like silk, ivories etc)

 

[DaveMcW]

They do it because their workers are bored and stupid.

P.S. Never automate your workers.

 

[oops2001]

Thanks DaveMcW,
Could you please answer my second question also, sorry I added it a little later

 

[Slowpoke]

No need to connect resources in civ 5, they are automatically connected once you improve them.

 

[oops2001]

Adding another Question here..
If one luxury resource is available to one city and that city is connected to three other cities through roads, would that resource be available to these three cities also. ( as I have seen that few cities demands some things like silk, ivories etc)

 

[Scarpa]

Luxury resources are available empire wide once the required improvement has been built on them.

If a city is demanding a luxury you probably don't have it at all. If you did have it you'd get a 'We Love The King' notification from that city.

 

[Slowpoke]

Unlike civ IV, roads and luxuries have nothing to do with each other

 

[Ahriman]

In Civ5, roads are only for making trade routes (each of your cities connected to your capital gives 1.25 gold per population point per turn) and movement speed.
Each city connected to your capital by railroads gets +50% production.

And, other than the city state build-a-road "quests", there are no foreign trade routes in Civ5.

 

[oops2001]

oh okays I got it now
@Slowpoke I don't know about that but from what I have read I think that Civ4 has more refined micro management in the game and people are missing that thing big time in Civ 5.
Mmmm well for a newbie like me Civ 5 is okay, once I get the hold of the game I might jump to Civ 4
thanks everyone

 

[HermannLombard]

If a city is demanding a luxury you probably don't have it at all. If you did have it you'd get a 'We Love The King' notification from that city.

You also get that demand the turn that a prior WLTK wears off, even if you already have the luxury. On the next turn you'll get a new WLTK.

There is one other reason to build outside your borders, and that's to connect cities where your territory is not continuous.