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RAW: If I have 8 roads and upgrade 1 to a highway I now have 7 roads and 1 highway my economy and stability each reduce by 1.
This should be clarified, I can think of three reasonable clarifcation depending on the intent:
1. Roads upgrade to highways and the only benefit is increased overland travel speed. Highway should be changed to "Highway hexes stack with Road hexes for determining the Economy and Stability bonuses; further improves overland travel speed."
2. Roads upgrade to highways and all benefits increase. "Economy +1 for every 4 hexes of Highway, Stability +1 for every 8 hexes of Highway; Highway hexes stack with Road hexes for determining the Road Economy and Stability bonuses; further improves overland travel speed."
3. Highways are not an upgrade to roads in the the building rules sense of an upgrade, rather they are an additional improvement to the hex. That road represent a network of unpaved roads and highways supplement with paved major arterials. Highway text should be changed to, "A highway is a paved and well-maintained type of a road allowing for speedier travel between settlements." Road text should be changed to, "A Road speeds travel through your kingdom and promotes trade. You can add a Highway to your Road." This leads to the idea that the improvement is real a system of roads not a road.
I agree that highway and road hexes should stack for the purposes of bonuses to kingdom stats. For the rest, I think just the increase in travel speed is sufficient.
This thread makes me want to design a Pathfinder variant of Settlers of Catan.
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