"Road to City State" mission

[Pep]

Don't you think the "build a road to a City State" mission should be tweaked. I have 2 complaints:

• Sometimes the CS demanding the road is far away from you, so it's not worth it (see the minimap at my attached image).
• After building the road it's a good idea to pillage it, because you're paying the maintenance costs (unfun micromanagement).

I think this could be changed by:

• A CS only offers you the "road to" mission if you're a few tiles away from it.
• As long as the road is connected to the CS, you receive a gold income (similar to having an open borders treaty with the CS). This extra gold should be enough to pay the road maintenance cost but not very high.

 

[Seek]

Not to mention, it doesn't work if Harbors are involved.

I suggested something similar a while back: make CS yields c5food:, or ) be less by a third unless there was a valid road connection between the CS and a civ's capital. The gold option could work as well.

 

[Dunkah]

@Seek, Love that idea. It would be cool if it could be complimented with a mechanic making AI's super sensitive to somone buggering with their "Connected" CS's as well. Moreso than they do now with regular CS's.

 

[pthmix]

How would that work with island city states? I doubt they would be intelligent enough to build harbors...

 

[Seek]

How would that work with island city states? I doubt they would be intelligent enough to build harbors...

That's probably a big reason why Thal never implemented the idea!

 

[Thalassicus]

The citystate quest system is mostly hardcoded in the game core, inaccessible with our current modding tools. However, the opportunity system I created gives us the option to create an entirely new mission-driven quest system to replace the current one. I put that on hold until after G&K.