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Hmmm ...
I currently have 4950 troops in total - all unassigned. None being trained; none adventuring; none reported AWOL.
My "Military units" number is 2200. That is now well less than half the number of troops.
For me the situation is getting worse.
try reading the front page? its a "feature"Quote:
Originally Posted by VVidi
Oh, it was certainly deliberate.
But essentially it's deliberately introducing a new bug to fix a previous one.
Without compensating players for lost population...
So the as the difference 4950-2200=2750. After the maintenance did your "Military units" show that you had 2750 units when you actually had 5500?Quote:
Originally Posted by VVidi
Yes you did!
The difference between "Military units" and real count remains the same. 2750 in your case.Quote:
Originally Posted by VVidi
except you didn't lose any population, lol. no need for compensation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerontius
in the history of all bandaid fix this is a notably terrible one however.
Yes, I did. My population was full one day, then 2000 less the next - and I hadn't built 2000 troops of either colonies or adventures since the bug had come into effect. So I've lost population
yes the total changed but you didn't lose any population, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerontius
i was also at 7200/7200 cuz i stopped doing adventures when they release the latest crap, err patch, sure after the "fix" i was at 4000 total pop but i still had 7k military units. you didn't lose anything.
If only there was someone in BB who could work that out too :/Quote:
Originally Posted by Durin_d
I run in to a player in Help channel that can't get new unemployed settlers.
I believe that the problem is that the "Military unit" count shows 0 but actually it's negative and therefore doesn't allow new settlers.
http://i.imgur.com/bW8mmwy.png
Does filling major house with settlers help?
The player says that he can see the number of settlers growing in his Mayor's house, so the increase happens but the tooltip doesn't show it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrazyBat
Even with retired bandits?
I don't know about that. I don't know if he has them or can make them.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrazyBat
I'll post again if the population grow continues at some point.
Edit: The settlers made in PH are added to the Mayor's house but they didn't show up in the tooltip. The amount added didn't exceed the losses in the last combat.
lol nobody removed your troopsQuote:
Originally Posted by Salem_Warrior_1
BB didnt tell you to kill off your troops so no compensation necessary
Dude the troops were not halved the troop count was. just confusing choice of words. its like every settler can be 2 military units. since we have 2 armies now this seems appropriate. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by FluffyBunnyHugs
that said the fix even if working properly would in my case never got to the point to start over at all.
OuchQuote:
Originally Posted by Durin_d
I imagine everyone with such problem will need to ask for direct help from support.
He had 88/800 in tooltip like the image shows but in the Mayor's house only 47 so I believe that he'll get unemployed settlers as soon as the number in the Mayor's house exceeds 88.
not working
I will need to kill off 4509 troops to get to the amount that the game thinks I have, that is going to be extremely costly for me to retrain them. Surely there must be a way in the programming code to be able to rectify this without all players having to kill their troops off to resolve it. Especially as an event is about to begin, people may need those troops to be able to complete their daily and Christmas quests.
That being said, If I choose not to kill off my troops, does that mean that my population limit will never reset, and I can just continue playing with stacks more room to train additional troops, or will it revert back someday? and I will be unable to populate mines etc, as I have more settlers than my troop count allows?
I feel that this should be rectified by BB, and we should not have to kill our troops of to achieve this.
So the official fix is to kill off a lot of troops? The programmers really are utterly useless...
So how about sending out a couple of Black Knight or other good adventure so we have something to kill off troops on? Or will we get the standard useless refills and a gift basket in a mail in a couple of days?
oh sorry, it looks thats known bug :-)
Threads merged
Love how BB noob devs have reintroduced a bug from January XD Good work
Tried that... didn't work - don't waste your troops... I think I am just going to ignore what the game says I have.... problem solved! Game says I now have 112 military units when I can SEE I have over 2k. I just killed 6k in an FT adventure.... I want EXACT instruction on what BB is doing to fix this or how we can resolve the situation ourselves because killing off our troops didn't work.... I have NO PVP troops or colonies.
Last time they fixed it by stealing settlers.Quote:
Originally Posted by FluffyBunnyHugs
I agree.. Ignoring this bug and avoid adding settlers is the best (least worst) way to go.
It seems that the killing off your troops 'fix' doesn't work!
Is there any chance of an update as to if and when this problem is going to be rectified? It is quite a pain calculating how many troops I can afford to train after doing adventures without going over my true population limit. I am sure many others are having the same problem. If they are not and have trained up to their current limit, they are going to experience all sorts of issues when rebuilding mines/wells etc when this does get rectified.
I would appreciate it if we could get an indication that this is still being looked into, now that people have confirmed that the killing troops down to the military pop amount doesn't actually work and that it hasn't just been brushed under the carpet?
thanks in advance
Combined, as a total, my assigned units and unassigned units for both adventures and for pvp currently amounts to 3766. The Military units bit of the Population figures shows as 1738 - a difference of 2028 between what I actually have and with what BB reset my unit numbers to show.
As I've lost units in adventures, the assigned/unassigned number drops as it should. The Military units figure also drops by the same numbers as I lose those units.
Now - if I got it right, we were told that as we lost troops, the number of assigned and unassigned units showing would drop back until it matched the figure shown in the BB reset Military units bit. I assumed the Military units figure, being lower than the actual number of units, would remain static (not drop) until the two figures synchronized. Well, that was my understanding.
So ... if the reset Military units figure drops in line with the adventure/pvp kill rate - it's going to reach zero while I've still got over 2,000 troops left. That seems to mean that I will have to kill off all my troops to match the Military units zero figure to get it all synchronized. (That's if that stays at zero and doesn't start going into minus figures.) If I have to rebuild all of my troop units as a result of a technical error made by the programmers - who is going to stump up the goods for me to do it?
Hopefully, I've got it wrong but I can't see how else the numbers are going to balance to re-synchronize it all.
Sorry BB, but that "solution" doesn't fix it. I've tried it, but it doesn't work. Your developers need to trace and debug the error, that's been introduced in the code with last week's maintenance.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Ravel
They know what they did wrong. They just have no idea how to fix it.Quote:
Originally Posted by flnielsen
From the announcement "Maintenance in December/January":
16. Dec: Game update* plus extraordinary Guild Quest resets
*The update introduces an improvement in regards to calculating population.
I came ... I saw ... I stayed in the login queue for an age ...
And finally the game started - and, yes, the numbers were back to what they should be :D
*tentative YIPPEE*
For me the numbers are indeed back to normal.
However since my population was allowed to grow during the time the numbers were incorrect, I now have 3000 more settlers then my population limit allows. I expect this will fix itself after I start and finish a tailor adventure ;) (or any other adventure(s)).
Since I still have over 1000 unemployed settlers I don't have a problem with settler shortage when it comes to my depleting buildings.
If you did train all your population into military, then it is probably more urgent for you to bring your military back to the amounts you had before (so your population will start to grow again and the new settlers can be used by the buildings or otherwise profit from their unemployement benefits)
They buggered up again. I had 4924 settlers unused before maintenance as they still showed this morning, but after the reset kicked in that dropped too 2054 now i have no issue the counter correcting itself but i would like my missing 3k or so settlers returned to my star menu and i know i aint alone with this .. seeing thoses settlers came from my star menu
Can you provide us with a screenshot. maybe we can find out why your unemployed settlers count was decreased. For me it stayed about the same as before maintenance (somewhat higher since I was still below the incorrect limit)Quote:
Originally Posted by ginny31
http://prntscr.com/5he5ni before the change as soon as i went to make 25 recruits it triggered
http://prntscr.com/5he5ww
only reason i have screen shoots is because ten minutes earlier it happened to my husband so he told me to take screens before i tested mine..he lost 3800 plus settlers
Had 96 population this morning, made 25 recruits and it suddenly fell to zero and my population count is now 4086/4050. Is this a bug fix?
as soon as you hop islands or add troops to the barracks, they remove all free settlers as long as you're above the population limit.
A pretty fast (and some weebles mumble rude) way of getting back to normal.
I did notice it takes a long time to load other adventure zones. I think to be safe BB decided to always count (or as developers call it: Calculate) all the settlers on the island you want to view.
Oh and I can understand such a quick method might be preferred over a more elegant method that would require more time to implement. But as always, it would be nice if the developers would tell us what they did and why they choose this option.
It has been said countless times before by lots of people: talk to us. (aka develop end implement a comunication strategy which satisfies the various stakeholers)
Before making 25 settlers: prntscr.com/5hen3f
After making 25 settlers: prntscr.com/5hetbw
Fantastic, cannot build a mine till I wipe out 1600 troops, and just off to work for 8hrs with mines empty of people, fan - bleeding - tastic!!!
They really need to send us a nice little pile of map fragments so we can easily reduce the population to fix their freaking bug.
I've declared a public holiday so that all my village schools are closed until the total population goes below the limit - they think it's xmas already.