My men wont man the crossbows...

[!Newo]

My guys literally wont man the crossbows, am I missing something? I give them the job to man it, I also just straight up tell them to man it. They never actually go and get on the turret tho

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

turn off passive

[!Newo]

Originally posted by HaTsUnE_NeKo:

turn off passive

thanks i'll try that, I think my game is broke now, everytime I try to load my game it crashes lol

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

go to the bugs forum and follow the pinned topic how to report a bug.
add the requested files.

[!Newo]

Originally posted by HaTsUnE_NeKo:

go to the bugs forum and follow the pinned topic how to report a bug.
add the requested files.

ok

[bunny de fluff]

Again, I think your mods broke the game. Just be more careful when choosing mods.

[!Newo]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

Again, I think your mods broke the game. Just be more careful when choosing mods.

I have what seem to be normal mods that ive seen recommended often and got all of them off the workshop. 256 units, Dark UI, Better map with zones names and roads, fences for farms to make them more easy to see. Most of these are just graphical mods.

[!Newo]

Basically what happened was my game had a random crash, which im fine with It happens every once and a while and it seems to be a problem a lot of other people have, im fine with it though because I save often. Yet when I tried to load back in i saw the little green loading bar in the top right, heard the rain and effects of the game like I was about to load in and then it all stopped and a black screen pops up for a second before crashing.

[!Newo]

Originally posted by !Newo:

Basically what happened was my game had a random crash, which im fine with It happens every once and a while and it seems to be a problem a lot of other people have, im fine with it though because I save often. Yet when I tried to load back in i saw the little green loading bar in the top right, heard the rain and effects of the game like I was about to load in and then it all stopped and a black screen pops up for a second before crashing.

I dont want to uninstall my game and reinstall because I dont want to lose all my progress and I dont really know what to try at this point.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

reinstalling won't help
you either have passive on or hold or both.
or some job set.

[!Newo]

Originally posted by HaTsUnE_NeKo:

reinstalling won't help
you either have passive on or hold or both.
or some job set.

well yeah passive was the problem, you fixed my crossbow problem. I was just talking to bunny about my crashing problem. Thanks you btw, really appriciate how noob friendly this community is lol

[Aggrobiscuit]

Now that you got them manning crossbows, you'll probably find they don't want to man the exact crossbows you told em to if you've assigned it as a job. The AI will prefer elevated crossbows, since crossbows that are built higher will do more damage. So they'll always try and man a crossbow on a building rather than one on the floor for an example.

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by Aggrobiscuit:

Now that you got them manning crossbows, you'll probably find they don't want to man the exact crossbows you told em to if you've assigned it as a job. The AI will prefer elevated crossbows, since crossbows that are built higher will do more damage. So they'll always try and man a crossbow on a building rather than one on the floor for an example.

This is simply not true in my vanilla game. I have both high and low wall harpoon, they stay where they were assigned (vanilla)

[Aggrobiscuit]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

Originally posted by Aggrobiscuit:

Now that you got them manning crossbows, you'll probably find they don't want to man the exact crossbows you told em to if you've assigned it as a job. The AI will prefer elevated crossbows, since crossbows that are built higher will do more damage. So they'll always try and man a crossbow on a building rather than one on the floor for an example.

This is simply not true in my vanilla game. I have both high and low wall harpoon, they stay where they were assigned (vanilla)

All wall harpoons count as elevated. Try building some on the ground and see what happens when you get raided, all your guys will run to the most inconvenient harpoons instead of the ones you placed on the ground behind the gate. (Unless you manually force them).

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by Aggrobiscuit:

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

This is simply not true in my vanilla game. I have both high and low wall harpoon, they stay where they were assigned (vanilla)

All wall harpoons count as elevated. Try building some on the ground and see what happens when you get raided, all your guys will run to the most inconvenient harpoons instead of the ones you placed on the ground behind the gate. (Unless you manually force them).

I went and did the experiment just because I do not believe the dev would make it choose the turret for player because to me it would be too intrusive and bossy. All of the following turrets were pointing at the same direction. On my wall, I have one mounted crossbow, one harpoon turret mk 2, one harpoon turret mk 2 with light. On the watchtower, I have one harpoon turret mk 2 with light.

On the ground I have a harpoon turret(mk1, the cheapest one). I select the turret guy, and shift+right click that cheapest turret on the ground, it became his only job. He went and main it. Everyone else is set to passive other than the turret guy. And then I dropped the beak thing on the floor at the spot where every turrets were pointing. The turret guy is at the farthest turret from the dropped beak thing. He shot it without changing to better or nearer turrets at all. I then tried with Skin Spider. Same thing, my turret guy shot it without changing to near,better,or higher turrets. So your claim might be from a mod.

[Aggrobiscuit]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

Originally posted by Aggrobiscuit:

All wall harpoons count as elevated. Try building some on the ground and see what happens when you get raided, all your guys will run to the most inconvenient harpoons instead of the ones you placed on the ground behind the gate. (Unless you manually force them).

I went and did the experiment just because I do not believe the dev would make it choose the turret for player because to me it would be too intrusive and bossy. All of the following turrets were pointing at the same direction. On my wall, I have one mounted crossbow, one harpoon turret mk 2, one harpoon turret mk 2 with light. On the watchtower, I have one harpoon turret mk 2 with light.

On the ground I have a harpoon turret(mk1, the cheapest one). I select the turret guy, and shift+right click that cheapest turret on the ground, it became his only job. He went and main it. Everyone else is set to passive other than the turret guy. And then I dropped the beak thing on the floor at the spot where every turrets were pointing. The turret guy is at the farthest turret from the dropped beak thing. He shot it without changing to better or nearer turrets at all. I then tried with Skin Spider. Same thing, my turret guy shot it without changing to near,better,or higher turrets. So your claim might be from a mod.

No, it happens in vanilla.

Also the thing you tried doesn't replicate the problem, since the guy was already on the turret, he won't switch to a different one. If you have people on turret all the time as their job, they will stick to that turret (mostly) but if you're multitasking them to do say farming while nothing is happening, and then drag the turret job to the top of the list to prioritize it once a raid starts, they will pick the "best" turrets.

Anyway, it seems that your playstyle hasn't let this annoying thing happen to you yet, so keep doing what you're doing.