Im sure someone somewhere has brought this up, but I cant find it so. just so my conscience is clear lol
There is still a HUGE pathing problem for the citizens, 2 areas...
- They wont follow roads at times. The will cut across gardens, back yards, between houses, and it seems like its random. And in all cases, there is a complete road network, no dead ends or incomplete paths or even paths that are just way out of the way. They will follow a road and just randomly, sometimes, take a left or right and decide to just direct path "as the crow flies" even when there is a road right next to them! Where this comes into play big time is if there is a steep hill.... they will just run off the road into the hill and stay there trying to climb up it. (see screen shot) So you have all sorts of workers "stuck" and the only way so far Ive found to get them to "unstuck" is to fire them from their job (if possible) and let them start moving then rehire them and all is ok...... IF you can fire them. I have bakers stuck on a hillside, no bread being made kind of and no way to "fire them" besides razing the house or switching the task the artisan job (and that doesnt always work).
- This is a huge one... so i have some houses im upgrading and they are stuck so I go looking for the oxen dragging the last log to complete the upgrade. Cant find it. So lets see what the people at the logging camp are doing. Found them... the one supposedly carrying a log, somehow, is now inside my castle area (which is NOT even remotely in the path from the logging camp to the upgrading houses) and he, along with about 20! citizens are INSIDE a guard tower (see screenshot). I start looking... ALL towers are full of people!!!
And here is the real bad part.... I was going to remove the manor wall and towers to free them up.... nope. Game refuses! if i try to demolish the walls, the towers, the manor... game freezes. Task manager will show not responding for a few seconds, then show active but in the game, locked up and frozen.
I have noticed that restarting the game sometimes frees them up, some of them, not all... side note... and this I didnt know about since ive never been a manor/castle wall ect type... once you put down the wall, anything inside the compound is now "untouchable" as in you cant click on any building and do anything. It still generates any produce/crafts from buildings in there but thats it... its locked out, you cant touch it/do anything
