how does one get rid of unwanted roads?

[alev]

How does one delete unwanted roads in civilization 5: God's and Kings?

 

[dutchengineer]

Place a worker on the tile where you want to remove the road, then use the 'remove road' option in the list of the worker 'builds'.

 

[The Pilgrim]

Questions like this are better be asked in General Discussion section. No need to make the mods work harder than they already do.

Moderator Action: . -> Thread oved to General Discussion.

 

[terveurn]

I found it interesting that I tried removing roads that another Civ built (in unclaimed territory) and the option to remove was not available.... Had to send in a combat unit to pillage the road.

It was only after I expanded into the territory that I first had to fix the road then delete the road.

 

[Verified_Confection_Being]

I found it interesting that I tried removing roads that another Civ built (in unclaimed territory) and the option to remove was not available.... Had to send in a combat unit to pillage the road.

It was only after I expanded into the territory that I first had to fix the road then delete the road.

It's the same with your own roads outside your territory. You can only pillage them, you can't remove them.

 

[Lord_Dweedle]

another good question is "when" to build roads.. I built roads connectiong 4 cities and ended up having a deficit -_-

 

[SnowKomodo]

another good question is "when" to build roads.. I built roads connectiong 4 cities and ended up having a deficit -_-

How far away were your cities from each other? How far in the tech tree were you in?

 

[mintcandy]

another good question is "when" to build roads.. I built roads connectiong 4 cities and ended up having a deficit -_-

That's not a simple clear cut answer for that question, since roads now cost gold to maintain.

Have you seen the trade route profit formula here on the CivFanatic fora?

If not, here's a detailed explanation: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=438745

The tl;dr version is that a trade route's income is primarily based on the population of the capital and the population of the city connected to the capital.

If connecting a city to the capital runs your civ's budget into a deficit, concentrate on growing both the capital and the city connected to the capital.

 

[Lord_Dweedle]

yeah I thought it would be something complex too hard for me to understand at 9:20pm hahaha, thanks for the link though will look at it in morning

 

[Verified_Confection_Being]

yeah I thought it would be something complex too hard for me to understand at 9:20pm hahaha, thanks for the link though will look at it in morning

A simplified version to follow would be that you'll be running a deficit unless the road is less tiles than the population of the city you're connecting. I think.