Torch symbol warning thing on fortifications - what the fk is it?

[constantinople]

The gate of my wooden wall has this... tower or torch with a red hourglass warning popup thing next to it. But the warning doesnt tell you what the fk the issue is.
Im getting really frustrated with this game and its lack of proper communication.

[Minotorious]

If you click the watchtowers it should say that they are too far from any watchpost. I.e. you need to build a new watchpost closer with watchmen (not patrollers) assign to man the towers

[constantinople]

Originally posted by Minotorious:

If you click the watchtowers it should say that they are too far from any watchpost. I.e. you need to build a new watchpost closer with watchmen (not patrollers) assign to man the towers

Thanks for the input but I have no watchtowers, never built one. I put a guardpost somewhere around that area at some point but long moved it somewhere else.

[Cleril]

Originally posted by constantinople:

Originally posted by Minotorious:

If you click the watchtowers it should say that they are too far from any watchpost. I.e. you need to build a new watchpost closer with watchmen (not patrollers) assign to man the towers

Thanks for the input but I have no watchtowers, never built one. I put a guardpost somewhere around that area at some point but long moved it somewhere else.

Then you hired watchmen I assume. Watchmen will only man watchtowers, not patrol.

[constantinople]

Originally posted by Cleril:

Originally posted by constantinople:

Thanks for the input but I have no watchtowers, never built one. I put a guardpost somewhere around that area at some point but long moved it somewhere else.

Then you hired watchmen I assume. Watchmen will only man watchtowers, not patrol.

Okay, but either way that icon has only appeared recently, its not on any watchtower or building but in the open gate of my wooden wall and there are no watchmen or guardposts or anything else around.

[Minotorious]

Can you please send that save file to [e-mail] for the devs to investigate, it might be that the warning icon appears in the old location while it pertains to the current location of your guard post.

That icon does mean that a guard location cannot be guarded usually because it is too far from wstchposts or you have too few watchmen.

[constantinople]

Originally posted by Minotorious:

Can you please send that save file to [e-mail] for the devs to investigate, it might be that the warning icon appears in the old location while it pertains to the current location of your guard post.

That icon does mean that a guard location cannot be guarded usually because it is too far from wstchposts or you have too few watchmen.

I believe I switched that building's subtype from a guard thing to something else at some point, now its just been freebuild type for quite a while. So maybe some old guard location got deleted when the building switched types but the game still registers it. However the icon only started appearing much later, make of that what you will...