Servant Coffins Link to Throne Based on Distance Instead of Shared Territory
If your throne and servant coffins are far apart the servants do not appear in the throne UI to select for missions. This is confusing as one would intuitively expect any servant coffins in the same territory as a throne (as in all connected to the same castle heart) would be controllable from that throne.
This distance limit is not communicated anywhere. For example, a reddit search revealed multiple people confused about servants not working after moving their coffins, which is how I discovered this after spending many hours preparing a special room for them. :(
Please eliminate this distance restriction and base the link on shared territory.
Thank you,
Michael
Comments: 8
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09 Jun
Jared CraigOh wow. This must be what happened to me. I was wondering why I didn't have any servants showing up. But I recently made a dedicated throne room on the opposite side of my castle after lvl 4 upgrade.
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09 Jun
VoradoreI had this issue today thinking it was the hotfix but it was actually because I moved my servants coffins too far away and didn't know about the distance tether too the throne.
Agreed this should be linked to the borders and Castle heart rather than the distance from the throne. -
10 Jun
Chris MergedBranch: Live version. Still happing as of the 6/9 update.
If the throne is too far (looks like ~15 squares) away from the coffins of your servants, you can't send them on missions. They just don't show up on the menu, even if they're part of the same castle-complex as the throne.
I hope this isn't intentional, because it's really an annoying limitation - Several of the people on my server have tried to set up graveyards or mausoleums downhill from the main castle complex, and it's been hitting us. We're a pretty friendly, mostly PvE server, so maybe there are some terrible PvP implications if your throne can be too far away, but for us it is mostly just an annoying blocker, so we're definitely hoping it gets fixed!
(Also, if it IS intentional, it could really use some better feedback. A warning on the coffin "this coffin is not in range of any thrones" or something?) -
12 Jun
KinxyI found this out today, and came to report on the issue when I saw this post. It looks like that when your Servant Coffins are to far away from your Throne, the assests of those coffins are not loaded, and your servant list apears empty. Quick fix is to move eighter your Throne closer to your servant coffins, or move your coffins closer to your Throne.
Pretty bumbed out about this, because I thought really carefull about how i wanted to build my second castle, and now its nog going to work out as planned unfortunatly. -
17 Jun
Rooibos / C.M. Admin"Throne doesn't work on distant minion coffins" (suggested by Chris on 2022-06-10), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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22 Jun
SeranaSame thing over here. Did some re-decoration and put the servants' coffins far from the throne room. Then this morning I was checking missions and wasn't able to send servants to missions since the list of servants was empty. This got fixed when I moved the throne close to my servants' coffins but pretty annoying to re-re-decorate this rooms again. My suggestion untill this is fixed: construct a small throne room near servants c:
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27 Jun
Tyrael Moonspire MergedIn my castle, I decided to change which rooms servant coffins were stationed. While all 9 servants were off in missions (already sent via the only throne I had), I moved (not deleted) the servant coffins to a further location away from the throne, but still in the same castle heart territory. Any servant coffin I moved became one less servant available to view via the throne. If I moved this throne to a new location closer to the servants coffins, the issue still persisted (no servants were seen). So, no fix. However, if I created a NEW throne closer to the servant coffins, I could then see the servants available and send them on missions. So, I thought.. maybe this is the bug and an easy fix. So, after I built the new throne that could send the servants on missions (while still having the old one), I decided to relocate the new one to where the old was was sitting (thinking it would still work). As soon as I moved the new one there, all servants were non-visible. A distance issue?
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27 Jun
Daniel Nagelhout Admin"Throne Showing No Available Servants" (suggested by Tyrael Moonspire on 2022-06-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.