I wondered how people felt about roads in LH?

I find after getting trade I often have a crazy route between 2 cities that will make travel between them impossible. In FE I would attempt to get and Administrator hero and then build roads but that was bugged. I find it difficult as maintaining the roads between my cities to be extremly important and its frustrating to have such an intergral part of how I build and empire be so buggy.

I have discovered the cheat where I can cast the outpost towers and build a road but it does seem to be an exploit. It is extremely silly that after I can cast that spell, anywhere on the map. 

Thoughts of changes. 

a. When trade becomes available, let me pain the road paths. 

b. Allow cities to build at cost more road connections.

c. Road building units?

d. Casting costs of outposts should be dependant on the distance from the closest city, to stop me building highways though other peoples territory.

e. outposts should have a range from your influence from casting.