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Old March 26th, 2009, 09:09 PM

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Default Re: Dirt Roads/Paved Roads

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Originally Posted by narwan View Post
A dirt road is basically nothing more than fairly flat clear terrain with almost no vegetation. The way to mimic that in the game is to create a trail of earth hexes through other terrain (clear, grass, woods, etc). But that's mostly for maps you generate yourself.
Dirt roads in reality fall between the secondary roads and the clear/earth terrain in the game. For 'high quality' dirt roads the secondary road will do fine while for 'low quality' dirt roads (after rain perhaps or a trail type of dirt road through harder terrain) the earth type will be the better choice.

Narwan
Thanks for your thought provoking answer. The road system used in SP now makes sense to me when I think about it in the paradigm you provided

Sincerely,
Andrew Nault
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