V65 road maintenance.

[apud.harald]

Chaps, I find the amount of janitorial work imposed by the starting acces road quite extravagant, 10 pop of my 32 busy with doing up the dirt road.
It stifles everything else.

[skudger]

it does seem weird that the roads spawn completely degraded, you have to spend years fixing them up

[Gamatron]

You janitors start in the centre and then work their way out of their workplace in a circle. So you do not need to repair the road, or employ that many janitors to do so. I understand that's not optimal, because of auto employ and such. But if the road weren't degraded to begin with, it would become so eventually, and postpone the weirdness.

[Slavoj Žižek]

maybe janitors should have a radius?

[apud.harald]

Originally posted by Gamatron:

You janitors start in the centre and then work their way out of their workplace in a circle. So you do not need to repair the road, or employ that many janitors to do so. I understand that's not optimal, because of auto employ and such. But if the road weren't degraded to begin with, it would become so eventually, and postpone the weirdness.

Imagine you are a new player. Weirdness is a reason not to pick up the game.
The same thing goes for the new trade system: I know I can ride out the idiotic demand of goods to get a trade deal. Does a newby know that?

I think weirdness simply has to go. Instead, there has to be a logical progression based on your efforts/resources.

[Fletch]

Originally posted by Slavoj Žižek:

maybe janitors should have a radius?

They do have a radius -- they will not repair every road on the map unless you build additional janitors along all the roads.

[Emptywater]

Actually, in fact, the janitors do appear to be fixing roads outside the work perimeter. I have to agree with OP. The auto-generated roads are a nice touch. But they do introduce some shenanigans the game can do without. Perhaps it is better if generated maps either:

1. spawn without roads as in v64
   
2. spawn with road entrances near map edge
   
3. consist of a special, perhaps only decorative road type that doesn't provide upgrades but neither degrades either.

[Teellox]

+1, was very confused when my janitors started hiking across the map to maintain a generated road.

Suggestion: Add an enable/disable maintenance tool (like we have for activate/suspend job), and have all generated roads begin as maintenance disabled.

[Big Dog]

I just remove them early

[Friends with Benedicts]

Originally posted by High Stakes:

I just remove them early

or make it so they dont degrade

[Gamatron]

Originally posted by Teellox:

+1, was very confused when my janitors started hiking across the map to maintain a generated road.

Suggestion: Add an enable/disable maintenance tool (like we have for activate/suspend job), and have all generated roads begin as maintenance disabled.

Indeed. I plan on doing this.

[VogonPoet]

Originally posted by Gamatron:

Originally posted by Teellox:

+1, was very confused when my janitors started hiking across the map to maintain a generated road.

Suggestion: Add an enable/disable maintenance tool (like we have for activate/suspend job), and have all generated roads begin as maintenance disabled.

Indeed. I plan on doing this.

100%. This is a great way to handle it. I've been removing them, but that takes a lot of manpower as well. Plus I like the degraded gravel look of the generated roads. Wouldn't mind being able to keep them that way :)

[ONE SWANKY ASS CAT]

Originally posted by Gamatron:

Originally posted by Teellox:

+1, was very confused when my janitors started hiking across the map to maintain a generated road.

Suggestion: Add an enable/disable maintenance tool (like we have for activate/suspend job), and have all generated roads begin as maintenance disabled.

Indeed. I plan on doing this.

TY dev daddy