Bug or intended? Bakery & Vagrant coins

[1Erik1]

I put my bakery specifically near my farms as my idea was that vagrants would run there when they harvest, pick up a coin and get recruited instead. Howether they just run through those coins with no interest even while I was present. They only accepted a coin when it was dropped by me.

Is that intended behaviour? If so it would seem like it would be worth putting the bakery where no one walks through so that my personal coins remain dropped rather than picked up by already recruited people.

Which feels weird to do that rather than naturally being inclined gameplay wise to put a bakery near a wheat farm.

[Stardustfire]

vagrants only react to coins the monarch drops, not to every coin near them. if that woud the case many maps woud be auto recruiting alone because archers hunt in/around vagrant camps.
bakery/brewery is best made at one of the 2 main hall towers, so they have the same way from both sides and you have enove time to react.

[1Erik1]

Guess that makes sense. I just clear the dock side and then convert all towers into bakeries and fill them up so I got basically auto recruitment for the rest of the map. Just wanted to know so I can make better early decisions on where to place a bakery in case I got the money to spare to create not just an easy but also cheap way to recruit more people.

[Stardustfire]

if you have enove coins to convert and fill all this towers you shoud have won the isle long ago. teh bakery is a emergency solution for when you cant reach vagrants without crossing a portal, not for auto recruiting perse.

[1Erik1]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

if you have enove coins to convert and fill all this towers you shoud have won the isle long ago. teh bakery is a emergency solution for when you cant reach vagrants without crossing a portal, not for auto recruiting perse.

Well that's a weird take on the bakery but sure, if you want to use it like that. Honestly though why? You need to go to each side anyways to clear the next patch of wood and in the process you go to the next few vagrant camps. Even if they are far it just means you gotta pay one more coin per citizen after they get caught on the next day cycle but then they are probably already halfway to your base. That's only assuming you didn't start early enough getting to the camp before the next wave hits. Compared to New Lands the citizen run much faster once they get the coin so it's not that much of an issue.

Considering that the bakery, especially since it replaces a tower which would leave you more vulnerable to the point of potentially breaking a run during a particularly nasty wave, seems to be more of a convenience to use for when you are good on cash but not good on manpower which is often the case once your farming machine starts running smoothly and waves start hurting more. Especially since there is a limit to how many places you can be regularly at any given time even with the fastest mount.

[fistleaf]

You only need 1 bakery to make the vagrants run, the rest are useless.

[1Erik1]

Originally posted by fistleaf:

You only need 1 bakery to make the vagrants run, the rest are useless.

Do you want to refill a bakery 10-20 times on one island or would you rather just make 10 bakeries and fill all up once and then not have to care about recruiting at all?

Not really useless.

[Stardustfire]

when you refill 10-20 times you already make something wrong, like already mentationed above.
when you stop playing easy and do hard and above you will recognice that idleing around on an isle (and that is the case when you use so many time to upgrade so many towers to a bakery) and wasting so much money isnt the way to survive.