Living Settlements to be temporarily disabled on Officials

Greetings Exiles,

In addition to changes yesterday to reduce follower rescue timers on Official servers down to 5 minutes, we are also temporarily disabling Living Settlements on Official servers until we can get a patch out that addresses the issues affecting you and your workers.

What this means for you once the feature is turned off:

• Workers will no longer wander or express behaviors - they’ll simply stay put wherever they are placed.
  • Workers are still classified as Followers, so they can still enter combat, count for follower limit, be rescued, etc.
• Enable/Disable follower use on individual placeables will not be available
• The new UI on crafting stations that allows you to choose from available crafting bonuses will still work as was introduced in Age of Heroes - provided, of course, your followers are within range of the station.

This change has not been committed yet, but is planned to go into effect by the weekend. We’ll provide an update here as soon as the changes are pushed to Official servers - keeping in mind that these kinds of changes only go into effect after servers are restarted.

Thank you for your attention, and I once more apologize for any trouble these issues may have caused you. We do not have an ETA on the patch at this moment, but as soon as we know more, we’ll keep you posted.

If you have any questions or need something about this change clarified, please let us know!