Patrollers

[Ayla Alteria]

So I have noticed that each guard house has all the parollers from each one walking in a group together and not splitting up taking dif routes. Is this normal? I would have assumed they all walk around separately.

[Welsh X King]

+1 I hate seeing this especially when you combine it with it still only notches up the "patrolled" as if one person walked by and doesnt fill the meter.

[Castille]

Same here, i don't see the point in employing tons of patrollers if they all go together anyway

[Andros]

Same here... my houses are loosing "patroling" because all patrols going together so they cannot reach all houses on time... even if i tried to assign them with time space in between... they are still going together.

[Grimtorn]

Sadly it is normal. Not a fan of that behaviour either.

You will get a "new" patrol taking different routes for each tower built.
I am building smaller watchtowers with 2-3 ppl in them scattered around my town to get around that problem.

[Ayla Alteria]

Originally posted by Grimtorn:

Sadly it is normal. Not a fan of that behaviour either.

You will get a "new" patrol taking different routes for each tower built.
I am building smaller watchtowers with 2-3 ppl in them scattered around my town to get around that problem.

Yea i might demolish my bigger buildings and do the same. oh well as long as this is here the devs might see it and do something about it?

[LordQulex]

+1 Yea they should take different paths to more efficiently cover the area.

[arestelle]

I built a second tower but made it an added building - it expanded capacity but all the patrollers still leave from the first tower and play herdball. And the patrol area paint tool is not tied to the building part, so I'm concerned that even adding a separate guard post won't really fix patrolling, because while they'll leave from the tower they're assigned to, they could all try to patrol the entire area instead of an area near their tower.

[Bernard Tremblay]

super annoying

[Warsong]

Originally posted by Ayla Alteria:

Originally posted by Grimtorn:

Sadly it is normal. Not a fan of that behaviour either.

You will get a "new" patrol taking different routes for each tower built.
I am building smaller watchtowers with 2-3 ppl in them scattered around my town to get around that problem.

Yea i might demolish my bigger buildings and do the same. oh well as long as this is here the devs might see it and do something about it?

+1
I absolutely hate this behaviour too. Made several Watchpost to counter this...