List event timeline entry for when NPC clan hired a Companion

[Amerlain]

To make it easier to know what Companions are available for hire by the player and what ones have already been hired by an NPC Lord/Clan, I think the Encyclopedia entry for a potential Companion Hero should display a message in the events timeline (the info that is shown under the "last seen" reading on the right). It could read something like "<clan name or lord name> hired <Companion name>" followed by the date, like with other events such as tournament victories. The same thing could be done when the NPC clan ends the employment of the Companion ("<clan name> released <companion name> from employment. <date>").

 

[MRay]

I can bring up "showing an event log for hiring a companion".

But you can also filter encyclopedia heroes in "Wanderer" and see if they belong to a clan or not.(a clan box will appear to the left of the event log in that case)

 

[Amerlain]

Oh, I didn't know that. If it already shows a clan affiliation, I suppose listing an event is kind of redundant. At the same time, maybe it would make things clearer for some people. Thanks for the info...I will look for the clan affiliation from now on, though I'm pretty sure the Companions I was seeing that I thought were employed were not available for another unknown reason. The reason I suggested it is I've noticed there are some Companions you can't find (you go to the city where they are shown to be under "last seen" and they don't appear even if they are never shown to be anywhere else). I thought that this was happening because they were employed by a clan, but I see now that this is not the case. Maybe a bug...I suppose I could start a separate thread for that then if it isn't something that was already mentioned by someone else. Thanks again.