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Restauratio Viaria - Road Fixes

This mod addresses a visual inconsistency in Total War: ROME II regarding road textures. In the base game, the level 1 road ("roads_dirt") uses the "sand_a" texture, making it appear clean, while the level 2 road ("roads_stone") mistakenly uses a muddy texture, creating the impression that the upgraded road is of lower quality when compared to level 1's clean texture. You can see a comparison between the vanilla and this mod's road textures in the first two screenshots of the image gallery above.

With this mod:

• Level 1: "Roads_Dirt" - Now have an earthy, unpaved appearance, suitable for early infrastructure.
  
• Level 2: "Roads_Stone" - Now feature proper stone-paved textures, reflecting their upgraded status.

This fix ensures your road visuals align with their intended progression, enhancing immersion and the realism of your campaign.

Along with this, I have unhidden the "road_development" effect so that players can now see which buildings provide what bonuses to upgrading roads.


It's never explained properly ingame, but road tiles increase the movement speed of your armies and agents in a region that travel along them, hence why - when holding down the right mouse button over land tiles with an army/agent selected - the movement arrows are attracted to the road tiles, as the army/agent is calculating the fastest possible route via those tiles which grant a movement buff. These tiles can upgrade to different levels based on its "road development" level. As these upgrade, so too do your army/agent movement speeds when travelling on those tiles. Knowing when a road tile has been upgraded is an important soft feature of campaign gameplay to know about which this mod helps inform you on a little bit more.

The threshold to achieve the level 2 road in a region depends on what mods you are using, but in the vanilla game it is set to "10". I've got a feeling a road connection is upgraded based on the status of both settlements it connects to adding up to a value of level 2's "10", as I mostly see roads being upgraded once two settlements between a road connection have reached level III -> IV buildings which start to give values of "10" or above.


This mod is fully compatible with all other mods, provided it is loaded above any mods that modify road textures and road effects.

It can be toggled on or off mid-campaign without affecting save files or game stability.

No additional dependencies are required, making it easy to integrate into any mod load order.