sun surfer
Chieftain
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2010
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1. If the city-state is close enough, I almost always build the road to them if they ask for it for the influence boost, but then after that, unless they are like between parts of my civ, the roads become useless and just cost money the rest of the game. I think in Civ IV if you connect roads to other cities you get a trade route money increase (?), but I don't think that happens in Civ V, but for these quests my money per turn does seem to increase once I finish. But only for ones with the road quest. I've tried building roads to city-states without the quest or other civ cities and no money increase. So
A) Wouldn't it be good strategy to just build the road to get the influence then tear the unnecessary roads back down again?
B) Or does the game make an exception and roads to city-states that want them give you money per turn from the trade route to the city-state?
2. I could figure this out myself but I haven't been patient enough to pay the right attention to do so yet - The game just says that all roads you build cost the maintenance fee, but does this include roads you build outside your civ boundaries?
3. When you capture a city, do all the roads now inside your civ all the sudden cost you maintenance fees, or are they free since the other civ built them? If they cost, then I think the good strategy is to start tearing down roads you don't need, like to a neighbouring city that you're not capturing.
A) Wouldn't it be good strategy to just build the road to get the influence then tear the unnecessary roads back down again?
B) Or does the game make an exception and roads to city-states that want them give you money per turn from the trade route to the city-state?
2. I could figure this out myself but I haven't been patient enough to pay the right attention to do so yet - The game just says that all roads you build cost the maintenance fee, but does this include roads you build outside your civ boundaries?
3. When you capture a city, do all the roads now inside your civ all the sudden cost you maintenance fees, or are they free since the other civ built them? If they cost, then I think the good strategy is to start tearing down roads you don't need, like to a neighbouring city that you're not capturing.