Palace Robbed spam every 4 seconds bug???

[portalst0rm]

I have 0 unemployment. Police stations ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everywhere. Yet every 4 seconds I get a palace robbed alert and i'm losing money so fast. what the ♥♥♥♥ is wrong with this game.

[Ribys]

The police station needs to be close to the houses and not "everywhere", make sure they cover every house in the city that's where thieves come from

[Aristos]

And it helps to press space to pause the game. So you have time to use the Special Maps->risks to identify the problematic area and to build a police station close to it

[NathanSCN]

Actually I think its something unrelated to criminality...
If and only IF I am not wrong this was somehting out of the original game:
When your people are unhappy (too much taxes, not enough food, work etc) they started robbing the palace over and over.
It did NOT MATTER if you had police or LOW criminality!

It was just a game feature (maybe even a bug that stayed) which made you consider your people even more. Obviously you dont want to get robbed so you tried to stay on their good side even more. ;)

Also I can confirm a mission I just played today - I had it happen to me in New Era.
I had extra police ONLY for the palace and my own house - AND guaranteed no criminality at the houses where my people lived (checked the specialty map multiple times).
But it didnt matter: expecially the palace got constantly robbed!
And it so happened that my people were unhappy with me on work and high taxes... o.O
Ungratefull plebs! I should have lashed them! :P

So call me a lier, but i think its a good old insider joke that stayed since the original.
And imho it should . ;)
It reminds me so much of Civilization with Gandhi... XD

[DirtyPeanut]

My Men-Nefer map is unplayable because of this. The "<building> was robbed" message shows up literally every 4-5 seconds. There is no crime risk according to the risk overlay, I have police stations and a courthouse... there is plenty of food. Unemployment is at 12% which could probably be better but is close to the target suggested by the game. Whether there's some intentional game design causing this or not, it's way too much. I literally can't play because the "...was robbed!" window keeps popping up.
(Ironically, I placed a courthouse and now the thieves keep targeting that in addition to my tax collector and palace... the courthouse is supposed to REDUCE crime!)

[Hapley]

Make sure you're paying your workers well, and you put up police stations around houses

DirtyPeanut, you might either be taxing too hard, paying crap wages, or both

[Borgessa]

Originally posted by DirtyPeanut:

My Men-Nefer map is unplayable because of this. The "<building> was robbed" message shows up literally every 4-5 seconds. There is no crime risk according to the risk overlay, I have police stations and a courthouse... there is plenty of food. Unemployment is at 12% which could probably be better but is close to the target suggested by the game. Whether there's some intentional game design causing this or not, it's way too much. I literally can't play because the "...was robbed!" window keeps popping up.
(Ironically, I placed a courthouse and now the thieves keep targeting that in addition to my tax collector and palace... the courthouse is supposed to REDUCE crime!)

Can you pause the game, that should stop the messages, and maybe see whats going on, you can build while the game is paused.. put some police down ?

[E_DuB]

Originally posted by DirtyPeanut:

My Men-Nefer map is unplayable because of this. The "<building> was robbed" message shows up literally every 4-5 seconds. There is no crime risk according to the risk overlay, I have police stations and a courthouse... there is plenty of food. Unemployment is at 12% which could probably be better but is close to the target suggested by the game. Whether there's some intentional game design causing this or not, it's way too much. I literally can't play because the "...was robbed!" window keeps popping up.
(Ironically, I placed a courthouse and now the thieves keep targeting that in addition to my tax collector and palace... the courthouse is supposed to REDUCE crime!)

Im experiencing this on every level since gaining access to the courthouse. It also prompts 4-8 messages everytime it happens giving a corrupted audio that is not pleasant to hear.

[phillip_lynx]

The problem with your robbery popups (I know, they are annoying and should be fixed) is not mainly the popup, but the avoidig of them.

I had only one time these popups. And this was because of one housingblock where I had forgotten to place a police station.
The robber come out of houses which were not visited by police a long time.
If you have planed and build your city so, that all your housings are patrolled by police, then you will never EVER see the robbery popup-

Good planing and streetblockers are the way to go, to evade robbery to 100%.
Hmm, to say it more clearly, good planing and streetblocks are the solution to most of THE bugs mentioned here in the forums. Fleeing people, people not coming back, robbery, fires ...
Also a great help is the hazard overly for police to see, where the robbers come from.

[Janet Double Trouble]

I agree with Phillip-Lynx on the good planning bit. However I am of the opinion that when you play in easy modus, it should be a lot more forgiving.

When you are an expert you know you've made some mistake, like a too high tax rare, too little jobs.

[phillip_lynx]

Originally posted by Janet Double Trouble:

I agree with Phillip-Lynx on the good planning bit. However I am of the opinion that when you play in easy modus, it should be a lot more forgiving.

When you are an expert you know you've made some mistake, like a too high tax rare, too little jobs.

The robberies itself are not so bad that they destroy you mission fast or complete. And I think in easy the robberies itself are forgiving,
The annoying issue are the popups which come up 10 per second (feeld :D ).