Guard towers

[LichKing]

I'm wondering.. You can't see if an enemy guard towers contains enemies (good). When an enemy-controlled guard tower appears in clear sight I receive the message 'enemy sighted'. Does this message appear only if the tower has units in it or also if it isn't guarded? I have the doubt the message appears only in the first case, so in the end you know if the tower contains units or not. Can somebody tell me please?

[magian]

The message always appears when you see a tower you don't control.

[SnotlinG]

The message should appeare whenever you see a new Guardtower, regardless if it is empty or not (since this knowledge is hidden from you)
If it doesnt work like this, its a bug, but Im pretty certain it is working as intended

[KGB]

I have another question about guard towers.

How does one upgrade the tower level? Several times I have wanted to upgrade towers to L3 so I would get +5 defense. But I have not been able to figure out how to do it (note, this is on towers that are already on the map, not ones I or another player built).

Also I have noticed that in the stack view on a tower with +5 defense the units aren't showing the extra +5 combat ability they they show in cities with +5 defense from walls.

KGB

[LichKing]

'Build tower' in the menu (along with raze/rebuild town etc), you must select an unit that sits on the tower, then you can upgrade it ('build' is used for upgrade too)

[SnotlinG]

This was something of a quick solution when we added the guardtowers. Maybe we need to rework this a little bit so it is easier to find

[Yahtzee]

Ooooh. I just thought they weren't upgradable which seemed a shame to me. Good to know!

[LichKing]

I think the option is in the correct menu, maybe you can only rename to "build/upgrade tower" or simply "guard tower"

[KGB]

Snotling,

I'd prefer the upgrade option to be available when you click on the tower itself rather than in a pull down menu.

When you click on a city, and open the city view you find the upgrade walls buttons.

When you click on a tower, you get a view that shows the tower defense level. All you need to do is add upgrade buttons there.

That way it works like cities do.

KGB

[SnotlinG]

Yepp we will do something like that, it has annoyed me also

However it wont be in beta5, since we are pretty much done with it.