Settlers page

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   Not sure if this belongs here, but on the settlers page where you build and send settlers, there's a line "Settlers already settling from any city in your empire" . It should be pretty self-explanatory. The thing is, this line only shows a value at the city where settlers are dispatched, while from other cities, it just shows a 0. So, is this a bug, or am I mistaking what the line implies?

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Brisinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New Poster Joined: 29 Feb 2012 Status: Offline Points: 14	Topic: Settlers page Posted: 08 Mar 2012 at 13:03
	Not sure if this belongs here, but on the settlers page where you build and send settlers, there's a line "Settlers already settling from any city in your empire" . It should be pretty self-explanatory. The thing is, this line only shows a value at the city where settlers are dispatched, while from other cities, it just shows a 0. So, is this a bug, or am I mistaking what the line implies?

SunStorm Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster Joined: 01 Apr 2011 Location: "Look Up" Status: Offline Points: 979	Posted: 08 Mar 2012 at 14:41
	Very interesting.... I wonder also why settlers appear as diplomats on the main page.... Every time I think I am looking at a forgotten about mission when in fact its just my little settler wandering across the map. Should this just be left as a progress bar in the settlers page (like exodus)?
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Aurordan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster Player Council - Ambassador Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 982	Posted: 08 Mar 2012 at 15:25
	Well how often does this come up anyway? Seems like an extremely minor issue. It's probably just unnecessarily difficult to keep all your cities displaying each other's settlers.

Brisinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New Poster Joined: 29 Feb 2012 Status: Offline Points: 14	Posted: 09 Mar 2012 at 03:41
	Yes, I agree that this is a minor issue. But still, I feel that it is a bug, and thus should be brought to the developers' notice. I'm just picky about stuff like that :D.

Rohk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Warrior Joined: 09 Aug 2011 Status: Offline Points: 218	Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 02:24
	The max button doesn't work on that screen either but it too is another really minor thing.

Rill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Player Council - Geographer Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 6903	Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 03:01
	I think it's better that the max button doesn't work for settlers. One could accidentally build 1200 settlers or something like that. Probably better to just enter a number.

scorpivs Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New Poster Joined: 10 Aug 2012 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 1	Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 03:42
	Thanks for the idea, Rill! I can think of no better use for 96,000 horses than to expand my territory. 4 days per settler, plus an additional settler per new city... it doesn't go very far, very fast, so I suppose it's a good thing I started making horses a.long.time.ago. Not to fret, I'm not really going to flood the continent with new towns, but it sure is a fascinating thought. Of course, Illyriad will only allow us to breed 10,00 horses at a time, without Prestige.

Rill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Player Council - Geographer Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 6903	Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 04:43
	scorpivs, actually you can enter any number you want in the box; the "max" of 10,000 is not really the max; if you enter 25,000 in the box, it will build 25,000 (assuming you have the resources). I don't tend to do that; 10,000 of anything at one time is usually as many as I want to make. The max available is now shown greyed out in the box, which sort of makes the max button unnecessary, but I still like it.

dunnoob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster Joined: 10 Dec 2011 Location: Elijal Status: Offline Points: 800	Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 13:44
	I'm no fan of the max button, after an unintended test with about 5K books. And months ago I've heard of a case where somebody built some thousands of unplanned chain mail, which should be ready now -- just in time to get a free blacksmith queue for crafting. OTOH I very often want to add or remove all available units of a given type, where an error would be no big issue. It would be very nice if they replace the dangerous max (production) by a harmless all (assignment) button.