Wish: Upgrades - Roads

Two things about upgrades.
The only way to see the status of a building upgrade is via the % indicator on the main map.
1) If your building is behind a tree, you have no way of telling the status of your upgrade.
2) Statuses are only available in a percentage. On a seven day upgrade, I have to whip out the calculator to see how many hours, days to go.

What if an upgrading building had on its data tile: "UPGRADING: 50% 3Days 12Hours 0Minutes 1Second until completion"


While I'm on the suggestion subject.
I really liked laying out my map with roads so I knew where I could place buildings with great efficiency.
But Building roads was VERY mouse click intensive.
Click Buildings, Click Roads, Click Start Point, Click End Point, Click Buildings, Click Roads, Click Start Point, Click End Point, Click Buildings, Click Roads, Click Start Point, Click End Point, Click Buildings, Click Roads, Click Start Point, Click End Point, Click Buildings, Click Roads, Click Start Point, Click End Point, etc.

How about a HotKey for Creating roads?
Or configure it like Erase Roads where Road creation only requires you to click "Start Point / End Point" "Start Point / End Point" "Start Point / End Point" and then deactivate the Road Creation Tool when done?

Roads are such a great tool and I'm not surprised few people use them because their creation is very labour intensive.



Thanks.

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I would like to add another comment to the Roads part.

I make roads and lay them down to give me an idea of where I can place my buildings. It's definitely a useful tool for planning.

But what is annoying is that some of the graphics like dirt area doesn't show the roads or hides them. Roads should always be on top and should always be visible.

Also a "grid" would be nice. Like an outlining grid to help you see where the roads can be built instead of having to do a trial and error start point and end point to figure that out.

I'd agree with all that Khalida.

Personally, since they've added the remaining time a buff on a building has into the building info window, they could add that in there as well regarding the upgrade time remaining etc.