Argh... where is the watchtower??

[joemama1512]

Once you build 2 watchtowers, for some reason you are limited to two of them. And it turns out that finding them can be quite a chore.

The easiest is to remove restrictions since it does not really accomplish anything after all. I mean, so I can build 10 of them... so what?

But, devs dont seem to wanna do this. So how bout make it easier to find the things when you need to destroy and rebuild elsewhere?

As long as you only have ONE, you are set. Click to build and then look for the giant red radius to find it. But if 2 are built, you are hozed.

Easy fix: mousing over watchtower button shows radius of watchtowers on the screen AND minimap. Whether you can build them or not.

Or, have a watchtower buttons up top just like troop buttons. You can click to cycle through watchtowers.

Or allow a watchtower gui to occur, except you cant actually drop the tower if over the limit. This way you can see the big red radius.

Im sure theres other ways too.

[djtim_3000]

There's a button in the UI (bottom right from memory? I found it by accident having the same problem you describe) that gives a list of everything in your colony with sorting/filters. Easy to find your watchtowers using this.

Also worth noting, as the game doesn't explain this well, that unlit areas during a death night have the fog which shows the path of a hoard using the brightly lit lighting within the fog. Watchtowers only work on areas of the map that are explored (and lit?). Generally I build death night defences as close to the Crystal as possible and find that most Crystals have an obvious path so a Watchtower isn't needed. I use watchtowers when a branching path for a crystal isn't clear, or when I think two crystals might bunch together at some point. Not entirely sure why the limit of two though, I tend to build one to find a path and if there's another path that I'm not sure about I just destroy one and build it somewhere else.

[joemama1512]

Thanks for the info. Ill see if I can find that button.