+1 or anything similar

+1, this is realy major annoyance

Capitar (you'll have to make their leader yourself) has this ability by default on all pioneers, and for free on any designed unit you want to give it to.

I guess I'm in the minority here. I like insta-roads.

It's far less tedious than manual rood building ala Civilization, and the fact that you have to try and visualize the potential road network is a further strategic consideration to city (and later outpost) placement. Yes this leads to less than ideal road networks, but this is part of the charm, IMO. 

My only wish is that it were just a bit easier to craft connecting roads. Ie, if you place a city/outpost exactly between two cities, you'll get two roads, one to each.

i want to build roads. Don't really want to monkey with workers everyturn since FE has no other worker terraform actions. For roads though, i'd be fine with managing their orders. But with FE, i think one would need just layout the road path one-time, then set them lose. Modify as needed. Would be nice if workers could continue to build while within an army of protectors. 

Currently the roads often go the wrong bleeping ways. Roads have major impact. When they fail, tough luck. As needed i'll go to the extra lengths to spam fortresses to get at least some of the roads where they need to go. BS workaround that robs more time than a worker unit would... i think.

 

If i had my druthers i'd add a worker unit who could build roads, fortresses and upgrades. The worker stops by a town to purchase the desired building kit. For example, worker buys a Fortress kit (gildar and perhaps other resources, but not time in the city queue) and head out followed by a wagon train. They spend the requisite turns building, then the worker remains but the kit has been consumed. Multiple workers stack. i think it would be fun for those times where you need an emplacement fast!! Becomes a race to get that fortification in before the enemy troops make it through the pass. And more. 

I like the insta-roads a lot. I like not having to manage workers because the game plays faster that way and it also feels special when you get a Governor hero with Road Building. If you have a problem with the flavor of it, choose to believe that the technologies that unlock roads are actually unlocking free spells that require a building at each end of the spell to function. I suppose you could even mod it into the Magic tech tree.

I have no prob. with the insta-road building. I´m happy that i don´t have to manage the building.

@OP - PocusFr

Do you have anything to do with "Pride of Nations"? I remember there was a Developer with this name on the paradox forum and i know that Pride of Nations was developed by a french developer team (Ageod). So... Pocus + Fr (france) would fit. Thats why i ask.  

I think PocusFr is THE Pocus, hi Pocus !

+1 for auto-roads building gradually. I dislike manual building of road (too much mm) and don't like the insta-roads.

i don't mind assigning roads to workers, but envisioned being able to do so along way points. Is time to build some roads, select worker, click road command, draw out the path. Then let em go. Players all done with that road unless something comes up during the construction. 

Mostly i don't like the error of roads. Neighbor blocks road with fort. Terraforming destroys road. Road been wrong from day it was built etc. A whole lot of erroneous roads. i'm in favor of player choosing route. And building roads as they wish (for fee) i understand that many players don't want to be dealing with workers every turn, nor do i. i'm for waypointing the road. Auto-built but human planned. Push the button and off they go following the course you laid out for them.

Hehe roads is other ambivalent aspect of the game. We cannot do them (except a faction, and a hero with POTG + road building trait, that is at least level 5 with a lot a lot of luck), but they "magically" appear between cities, between outposts, and between capital cities.

PRevious posts have staten reasons pro and vs.

Since we cannot usually build them, I find the "insta-build" a must. If any faction had the possibility of a road-builder unit easy to get (just the same trade tech), then I might think different.

Another idea is that the insta-built road should not give so much movement (bad quality road), and a later tech would increase it.

Anyway, instant or not instant, we need a road-building unit!!!

I'm with the people that like the insta-roads. It seems to me that this game got roads just right.

They insta-build, but you have to deal with the path they give you, and you can build them yourself, quite quickly, but you have to plan ahead by picking the right champ path or faction. You can build or insta-build roads across the land, but the AI gets to use them too, and if you've been ignoring the civ tech tree, you need to go back and get the trading tech.  It just all balances really well, I think.

Add the touch of not dealing with worker units or road maintenance, and you have just the right brew.

Someone said you need a lot of luck to get your champ the road-building trait. That hasn't been my experience, but maybe I've just been lucky. If it's right that POTG champs sometimes have a hard time getting road-building, then that might be the one thing I would change. They should all get a shot at it by level 7 at the latest. I feel like road-building is something you should have to plan ahead for, but not require much luck to get.

As far as the roads building themselves over time, it wouldn't bother me, but I really don't think it would change the way I play very much at all. one tile per turn is pretty fast, anyway.

Oh, I also liked the idea of a toggle to make road-builders do it every where they go automatically. I've been wanting that as I've been playing. I think all the other suggestions I read just sounded borderline horrific.

I like instant roads. I don't like that roads never, ever, ever, ever, ever seem to be deleted. Build outpost, outpost smashed, build city, gets razed, do this over and over....road spaghetti. Place looks ridiculous. The game should have defined routes between cities and outposts, and a road which suddenly isn't a part of any known route should decay.