Roads

[wynofthetim]

Not the island and swap faction
umm i read somewhere (i can't find it now) that the plan was that the steppes will not be able to build roads and that nomad generals will have a trait 'Nomad +25% movement'
Is this still going to happen as the post was old

also im thinking about arabia here mainly.. i don't feel stone roads through a constantly moving desert is all that realistic, right? i dont know.
i think ill leave this open to full debate if people want to.

[pseudocaesar]

we should make the deserts unconquerable.

[dvk901]

Northern Ranger is working on the Map now, so maybe he can take care of that.

[wynofthetim]

i agree with pseudocaesar here, i dont like how most of north africa is attached to one province halfway along the coast. I also dont like how arabia is conquerable at the moment, and also i thought we were scrapping ireland as a region?
I personally like the idea of all the above becoming part of a region called "Regions unconquerable" or its latin equivalent, or maybe "regions unconquerable" given a latin spin like "regionalis vidi"? maybe thats a cr*p idea...

[rory o'kane]

terra incognita, is i believe the term used in lots of mods - it means "unknown (read: unexplored) land" - this works, simply because it's just endless desert really, and you couldn't really trek through it and map it, could you?

[Northern Ranger]

Apart from the Sahara, Arabia and Ireland, where else should be put into this one province?
I was thinking about northern Scandanavia, Finland and northern Russia

[dvk901]

Scandinavia\Norway would be good, but I would prefer the mainland steppes and Russia be left in. The Germans go that way all the time, and there are few regions up there anyway.

This is a good idea, because I already have a good use for this 'unconquerable' place. I think, anyway, there may be a way to double the usefulness of a model by using the 'merc.' entry to create another unit. But sometimes, you won't want it to be really a merc. So I can put that 'fake' merc as available only in the unconquerable region.

Just testing now...

[wynofthetim]

that makes no sense to me but it sure sounds good!
also just wondering if the whole no roads in steppes thing is happening or not?

[dvk901]

The roads issue is a tricky one. I have to use the AOR to restrict where they can be built, and sometimes get errors saying a faction has a gap in the building tree. I try and fix this...