Keeps + Emplacements, Town Centers, and Outposts sometimes stop attacking

[HanSoloEater]

I saw another post about Town Centers sometimes stop attacking and I was wondering if anybody else has seen this?

I had a game today where my Keeps stopped using their Cannon Emplacement twice and its super frustrating. In one case a fight was occurring under my Keep, I researched Cannon Emplacement, the research finished, shot a single cannonball, and never fired the cannonball again despite the fight lasting under that keep for multiple minutes.

I would like to theorize why that would happen and I have 2 potential Troubleshooting leads but its hard to test against AI. Also worth noting is I play exclusively HRE so this bug could be Civ-specific. Another thing worth noting is I often retarget my TC / Keeps which may result in the bug occurring.

1st lead is it has to do with the building becoming obsessed with targeting a Single unit and waits until it can attack that unit until it will look for another target. Hunch for this lead mostly comes from the current Prelate bug, where moving a Prelate while it is trying to Inspire a villager will prevent him from Auto-Inspiring other Villagers, since his AI is trying to inspire the villager he was moved away from before looking for other Villagers to inspire.

I suspect a similar behavior may be happening as well with the Keeps, whether a target it was deciding it would target next moved out of range in the last second / tick, or perhaps a unit died right as it was about to shoot. (IE. the Keep decided, "I am about to shoot that Man-at-Arms with the Cannon Emplacement, he dies from arrow fire, and the cannon refuses to retarget.)

2nd lead is it has to do with Garrisoning and Un-Garrisoning messing with the Keep / Town Center / Outpost somehow. Either Garrisoning / Un-Garrisoning adding and removing the wrong type of attack for some reason. Speculation for this lead has to do with me noticing this bug when I frequently Garrison and Un-Garrison a building ie. my Primary TC.

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The intention of this post is to get to the bottom of this issue, and I would like to know if anyone has any info on this? Ideally we would be able to create instructions to reproduce the bug and can then submit it as a bug report.

[Kabanchik2538]

happened to me with delhi tower, i built a tower with arowslits and it just stopped attacking, this was very annoying since that tower was built to shut down an enemy dock.
i couldn’t do anything to make it shoot again…

[NTL6062]

Hi @HanSoloEater and @Kabanchik2538,

good to find this post. I have reported this bug yesterday. You can find and push/like/whatever the bug report here:

Weapon emplacements stop shooting for the rest of the game

Hi there, i think there is a huge problem with weapon emplacements like cannons, springalds and so on. For no reason the weapon emplacements stop shooting for the rest of the game. If the weapons stops shooting, manual attack is also not working for the it. My theory is (I’m just speculating based on my observations): a weapon emplacement like an outpost cannon scans for a target the cannon finds a target a small delay until the cannon fire on the found target if the target of the cannon die…

It’s a complete desaster with the weapon emplacements like cannons, springalds and possibly other emplacements. I’m working on a mod with a lot of buildings with weapon emplacements. The emplacements stops again and again shooting for the rest of the game. Manual attack is then also no longer possible. The Gif-Animation in my Bug-Report is made in a standard game on a standard map in a 1vs1 match against my friend.

I really hope, that relic reacts on my bug report.

[ZdsAlpha]

This is not a bug, Its a feature. Its to reduce length of individual game.
Towers, Keeps and TC slowly stop working so enemy troops can have orgy in your base.