roads

[Cynycal]

lets say that me and my friends get powerful we build a castle, we do some other stuff and develop a town...well how would we go about getting a road build to our town, could we build our own roads, or what?

[Wrentia]

Lets say a couple evil guilds build their halls and villages way out in the boonies somewhere...can they start up their own private road network connecting their villages. NPC encampments that grow would have to include some sort of path from a road to the encampment....with the path getting more road like as the encampment grows to a fortified city.

Bridges would also have to be built, with some deciding to charge a toll for crossing to recoup their construction. Yo Brickhouse, is this kind of stuff feasable?

-Wrentia

[UBIK]

how about you guys build big castles, then "Arch Bishop Ubik" (took a while to come up with that:) decides to trick you to giving it to him, then he gets all mighty and "scary" and... i forgot where this was going, i'd better stop before rolfe or lamont smite me.......

[Lordosis]

I suppose it'd be possible to build a road, but you'd have to find some road buliders to do it (NPCs). You couldn't do it yourself. Building a road is an immense amount of work, though, and it would probably cost you a pretty penny. Also, in more civilized areas, the king may have his own thoughts on where roads should be, since he's the secretary of transportation as well as king :).

Hmm, toll bridges would be hard to justify because it's pretty easy to just go around a bridge. Well, I guess it would be hard for trade caravans to go around. Of course, you'd probably need to hire a pretty serious guard to collect the tolls so he doesn't get jacked for all your toll money. I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble to make toll bridges. Bring it up again after release and we'll see how it looks at that point.

[Cynycal]

i'm likeing the idea of toll bridges...it'd add some realism and something for a theif like character to do

[UBIK]

but with toll bridges, if you had to get across, and there were no other ways, and you just happend to have a freeze spell, you could freeze the guard, kill him and take all the toll stuff,

or if you just waisted your last bit of money to get across the bridge, and got really mad at that, you could use a fire spell to burn the damned thing down.... not that i would do that or anything....

[Cynycal]

so like i was saying its an awesome idea...you could also like kill the guard (or tip him off or something) and like trap the bridge or something...or kill the guard and ask for the toll yourself and keep the money..