Can't build a road

[sunlen87]

I decided to found my own city, made my own party, and bought all the land with my company so that it would not be built up by the AI, but when I used the remove roads tool, I deleted them everywhere except the top of the map and there I can lay a road, but in the middle of the map The river crosses it and there are no roads left on the other side of the river and, accordingly, I cannot lay roads there and build factories. Can this be fixed somehow?

[anjali]

never delete all roads, leave atleast 1 tile on each side of the river, if you got a savegame from before deleting all roads just load it up and redo your city build. ... i always save the game before i start to remod the city layout.

btw no need to buy up all land, you can use the government mode and put everything you dont buy as "not for sale" that way you can found a city with 400-500 million buying up a 100x100 or even a 200x200 city is 10-20 billion, takes ages to get this cash. i rather open a city early to drop my HQ and bank HQ in so that i dont get jumped by an AI city Mayor with 26% corporation tax or even higher, running a bank with 10% or 26% taxes gonna make a huge difference

[Stylesjl]

I think the underlying issue is that you cannot build a road unless it is adjacent to an existing road, hence if you remove all the roads on one side of a river you basically can't build roads on that side anymore.

Prevention of that problem would be to not delete all the roads.

But I suppose maybe there could be a change in the rules - maybe allow roads to be built if there is a body of water separating the only remaining roads.

[sunlen87]

I think the underlying issue is that you cannot build a road unless it is adjacent to an existing road, hence if you remove all the roads on one side of a river you basically can't build roads on that side anymore.

Prevention of that problem would be to not delete all the roads.

But I suppose maybe there could be a change in the rules - maybe allow roads to be built if there is a body of water separating the only remaining roads.

You are absolutely right. Thanks for the advice, especially with government zoning, didn't know. Unfortunately, there are no saves, I didn’t even pay attention to it at first and time flew by. So, in fact, if there is no road, then nothing can be done about it?

[cantdownloadit]

only by restarting, though you can build some buildings without access to roads so use it for those

i did query the no roads thing a long time ago but it didn't get a response, but i think its just a bonus extra they gave us not a core feature.

this is why i want to be able to load/save map layouts so i dont ever need to edit roads

[anjali]

this is why i want to be able to load/save map layouts so i dont ever need to edit roads

yeah that would be great if you only need to make a city layout once for a new city and just select it on the founding city screen as usually if a new city is built then you dont have more then a main road going through it and not totally useless layouts.

[Stylesjl]

I think the underlying issue is that you cannot build a road unless it is adjacent to an existing road, hence if you remove all the roads on one side of a river you basically can't build roads on that side anymore.

Prevention of that problem would be to not delete all the roads.

But I suppose maybe there could be a change in the rules - maybe allow roads to be built if there is a body of water separating the only remaining roads.

You are absolutely right. Thanks for the advice, especially with government zoning, didn't know. Unfortunately, there are no saves, I didn’t even pay attention to it at first and time flew by. So, in fact, if there is no road, then nothing can be done about it?

I don't think anything can be done about it. I tried it myself and could not find a way.