Roads and distance from capital

[Flavius Merobaudes]

It seems to me different road levels have no influence on capital distance penalty. Could there be a possibility to mod this?
Highways make the territory more coherent and distant provinces are easier and faster accessible for administration nerds. So distance penalty should decrease with higher road levels.

[Makanyane]

Hi, welcome to the forum

Unfortunately as far as I know the capital distance penalty is hard coded and I don't think its effected by roads.

You could however add a law bonus to the road 'builiding' in export_descr_buildings so it partly offsets the distance penalty. eg:

paved_roads requires factions { saxons, franks, eastern, roman, nomad, hun, }
{
capability
law_bonus bonus 1
{
road_level 1
}
construction 3
cost 1200
settlement_min large_town
upgrades
{
highways
}
}

That would only apply to the region the particular road type was built in - it wouldn't give you any greater benefit for being completely linked by highways to your capital.