POI's bugged?

[Elias Auxilibus]

Trying to start a new game, but despite selecting areas I know for a fact have plenty of hardware stores, barns, sport shops, and/or warehouses the game still says there's 0 in the area. In fact, no place I select shows any of these.

Is it just not displaying them on the starting area select screen and they're actually there when I go to play, or is the game actually bugged?

[Kedryn]

POIs are based on OpenStreetMap data, which is kinda meh. I've had to hand edit game maps to update it myself.

[Elias Auxilibus]

I'm kinda wondering if the display is bugged honestly. I went ahead and loaded up a few areas that says there's none of those there, but then I'll actually find plenty of them in the in-game map.

[Rider]

Do you mean that while choosing the map it shows 0 POIs in tile stats panel, or the POIs aren't shown on the playable map already in the game?

[Elias Auxilibus]

Originally posted by Rider:

Do you mean that while choosing the map it shows 0 POIs in tile stats panel, or the POIs aren't shown on the playable map already in the game?

So, you know when you click on New Game and you're choosing a new place to play, and on the right side one of the things is the number of POIs in the selected area, and when you mouse over it, it'll show how many of each kind of POI there is?

It'll always display 0 for hardware stores, barns, sport shops, and warehouses regardless of how many are actually in the playable map. It also doesn't always correctly display the number of fuel facilities, sometimes showing 0 when there's said places present as well.


This problem is much worse for small towns it seems, where it will often display 0 or WAY less than how many are actually there for all types of POIs. Like my hometown has every single type of POI in the playable map but shows 0 on that panel when starting a new game.


As a side note, I'd report this issue in-game but, well, the bug reporter is only available on the playable map.

[petera1289]

Originally posted by Rider:

Do you mean that while choosing the map it shows 0 POIs in tile stats panel, or the POIs aren't shown on the playable map already in the game?

when I start a new game and select Crofton map, the stats say 82 POI ... those POI are
Uniformed: 0
Shops: 30
Medical: 3
Education: 2
Hardware: 0
Fuel: 1
Barn: 0
Sports: 0
Warehouse: 0

Once the map loads ...
uniformed is only a few buildings away from HQ (5 in core tiles)
barn on bottom edge of start tile (4 in core tiles)
education = 5
medical = 12
fuel = 10

82 might be food markers ??

[Rider]

Originally posted by Elias Auxilibus:

Originally posted by Rider:

Do you mean that while choosing the map it shows 0 POIs in tile stats panel, or the POIs aren't shown on the playable map already in the game?

So, you know when you click on New Game and you're choosing a new place to play, and on the right side one of the things is the number of POIs in the selected area, and when you mouse over it, it'll show how many of each kind of POI there is?

It'll always display 0 for hardware stores, barns, sport shops, and warehouses regardless of how many are actually in the playable map. It also doesn't always correctly display the number of fuel facilities, sometimes showing 0 when there's said places present as well.


This problem is much worse for small towns it seems, where it will often display 0 or WAY less than how many are actually there for all types of POIs. Like my hometown has every single type of POI in the playable map but shows 0 on that panel when starting a new game.


As a side note, I'd report this issue in-game but, well, the bug reporter is only available on the playable map.

On a map selection screen there's also an option to report issues with the map. I'll forward the case to our testers, we'll see what we can do. It seems that the estimation for some reason doesn't equal generated POIs. Could you point me to some specific places where it's shown wrong?

[petera1289]

Originally posted by Rider:

It seems that the estimation for some reason doesn't equal generated POIs. Could you point me to some specific places where it's shown wrong?

I put a detailed breakdown of the recommended crofton map above ... here are POI details for 3 other recommended maps

Dijon says 1786 POI but 0 for uniformed, sports or barns ... centre tile has 1 uniform & 2 sport

Cambridge says 4279 poi but all are shop, medical or 975 education ... maybe 150 education in core but also 9 uniformed & 18 sports & 12 fuel (not fair to count centre tile etc because HQ almost on intersection of 4 boundary)

templin says 851 POI but 0 for uniformed, sports or barns (1 fuel) ...centre tile has 1 uniform, 4 barn (6 fuel)

[Rider]

Thanks, our testers are already on it.