Now look, I understand that building a road is not going to be easy. But the resource requirements are absurd.

You need thousands and thousands of steel and bricks to make the road without using In Situ. That's seriously hundreds of caravans full of horses, full of materials. I did some testing in dev mod. 150 steel gave me less than 0.1 percent completion of 1 road leg for a stone road. I think it took around 500 steel to get 0.1% so I'm going to use that number.

That's half a million steel to complete the road. To build a road 5 tiles long would be two and a half million steel. And if not using in situ that'd be 15,000,000 stone bricks.

To put it in perspective, a medium size map is 250 tiles, which would cost 1000 stone bricks to build a 1 tile wide road across it's entire length. Even if we wanted to make our road 5 tiles wide, that's still 3000x cheaper than building a stone road. And it costs zero wood and steel.

I'm happy for the math to be a little wonky given that maybe a world map tile is longer than a generated one. Or perhaps we're building something more sturdy than regular stone tiles. But it shouldn't be this ridiculously overpriced.