Comment 6 for bug 734193

Astuur wrote: "As for Chuck's idea in #4, I am against it. It may well be nice to look at, but I don't think we should punish players with an extra construction time and material requirement, if they built in such a terrain."

I agree that the player should not be penalized for building a road over one tile of water/swamp. I was just doing a little brain storming. :) However, if we ever opt to bridge MORE than one tile of water (i.e. an expanse such as cannot currently be traversed with a road), then I think such ambitious ideas should carry a cost (and a nice image reward.) In such cases, though, we will more likely implement something like row boats instead of bridges.

Using a different road pattern and/or flags to denote the footbridge certainly seems more easily achieved and would certainly be more adaptable to a particular terrain.