When the builders are fixing the hospital, they - or at least some of them - start to circle the building and get stuck at the top, going back and forth. Their task bars say that they are fixing the building, but they just continue to go back and forth. Is this a _bug_ or something necessary for that particular building?

Something similar happens to the trainee doctors who circle between the plants to study (they actually do that if they have no other previous skills until they become adepts, after that they become lazy as...). When the doctor comes from the top of the village and wants to study the red rose in the bottom right corner, he often gets stuck between the irrigation and the dam construction, going back and forth until I rescue him.

I know of the other stuck villagers (such as the kids and the doctors by the black vine) but I haven't been able to find anything about this in the forum. Does anyone know something about it?

The doctors do seem to spend an extreme amount of time doing nothing. I think everyone gets stuck in the hospital.

ever been to the ER? you really do get stuck in the hospital!

Oh, I have had experience with the subject of lazy doctors and problems they have with reaching and curing sick people at the hospital. I have written about that earlier in this forum. That is another glitch as far as I can see.

I actually think melian1965 isn't really talking about the doctors not doing anything, nor the patients and/or doctors being stuck in the hospital. I think melian1965 is referring to path problems (I don't remember what the game designers actually call it, but it has to do with where they can and cannot walk) in that they get stuck and start walking in circles. In other words, the builders act like they are trying to get to the front of the building, but can't. The kids near the black vines or the doctor near the black vine seems to get stuck, same with the red flower in the bottom right hand corner. Is that what you meant? I have seen another reference to the problem and one of the game designers responded back that they were aware of it and were working on a solution.

Thanks, Simsane! That is exactly what I mean. Good to hear that the designers know about it. That was what I was looking for when I tried to search for information about it, but failed to find any.

You're welcome, no problem. Isn't that frustrating though?

They are working on some of the path problems, as they've said in some of the posts. Hopefully all of them will be addressed, but I would not count on all them being fixed. I would suspect they will work hard on the most "troublesome" path finding issues, but minor ones that don't effect game play will be the last to get fixed, if at all. So try and be patient and we will all see which ones get fixed when they release the patch.

in my well-populated villages, I usually get a mass of people on the top of the "swimmin' hole" cliff, all piled on top of each other. is that the same as the "black flowers" one?

and as for the hospital glitch, I don't seem to get people stuck there unless I drop builders on it, then they end up walking on the rafters if I don't do it carefully. it's pretty funny to see.

When the builders repair the hospital, after a while they tend to walk round it and then get stuck in a rut above the hospital, walking to and fro and getting nowhere. Some of them escape, but I have to save a lot by moving them to another hut. Otherwise they will never gain any builder skill.

The only people who get inside the hospital by their own free will (that is, without my interference) is the sick people. They don't do it everytime, but if they do the doctors are unable to reach them and heal them.

The black vine problem has to do with putting people their to either collect herbs or gain healing skill. Sometimes they get stuck. At least that is as far as I know about the problem. Personally I don't think that is a big problem. It is far worse when they get stuck by doing something automatically (that is, without my interfering or taking action). That takes a lot of tedious work to save them, so they can continue to learn skills.