I've found the biggest environmental bugger about Oblivion.

[Cheomesh]

Roads.

For an Empire, their system of roads really seems to suck. It's just a texture, really -- doesn't even sculpt the land any.

I'd really have liked it if they had a solid Imperial high-way running through a good part of Cyrodil.

 

[CR0M]

and you know the pisser is, nobody uses the damn things anyway except guards.

 

[Seppo]

it saves the environment

 

[VirusType2]

Yeah cobblestone roads would be righteous.

They probably had to save all of those bricks so they can build the walls to trap you in towns.


lol

 

[Seppo]

Those were dark days...we had to separate stones and bricks from the roads nearby to build stronger walls into our house, so we wouldn't freeze to death during winter.

 

[Cheomesh]

Those were dark days...we had to separate stones and bricks from the roads nearby to build stronger walls into our house, so we wouldn't freeze to death during winter.

lul

Still, though.

 

[VirusType2]

It's actually a feasible explanation for the absence of roads. I saw on the History Channel or National Geographic Channel that much of France was built using the bricks from the crumbling and still standing structures from the Roman empire...

something like that. more accurately you can find this info somewhere else

 

[Seppo]

that's recycling at its best

 

[Krynn72]

and you know the pisser is, nobody uses the damn things anyway except guards.

Melon golems use the roads.

 

[VirusType2]

Melon golems use the roads.

Melon Golems. A tasty adversary.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

 

[Jintor]

I lol'd.

Damn the Emperor. He needs to divert more funding to roads.

 

[-Psy-]

The melon golem has nice breasts.

 

[Cheomesh]

I lol'd.

Damn the Emperor. He needs to divert more funding to roads.

Seriously. I hate (lies) to be a pedantic bastard, but damn it, roads are important!

 

[Narvi]

How'd the Emperor get his armies to conquer the whole world without an effective highway system? Maybe these are just backroads?

 

[Jintor]

Rome functioned Primarily on roads. Presumably the existance of magic and dwemer technology must have helped the Imperials conquer much of the world in its stede...

 

[Cheomesh]

They've Dwemer technology? When was this?

 

[Narvi]

Battlemages still need to get to places, since they can't teleport themselves or any one else anywhere they haven't been. I don't recall any kind of mass teleport spell either, so it'd take forever to get a legion assembled using magical teleportation, even using dozens of mages, not counting that they would have to have a secure area to bring people in. Magical transport seems to be used only for travelling dignitaries and other VIPs normally too.

Have we ever seen what the Imperial Navy looked like?

And where would they have got Dwemer help? The Dwemer were centralized in Morrowind. The Imperials (specifically the Mage's Guild,) have recently acquired Dwemer schematics and technology, and are studying it, but they never had it during the conquests.

 

[Jintor]

Then the makers didn't think this through.

Should've made better roads.