For what it’s worth, there were no goblins in my case. That is to say, they were on the map, but not in town. Since it’s talking about a lease, I thought it might have to do with focusing the camera on a citizen (which I may have been doing since I had the citizen management dialog open; hard to tell from the video, though), or with the shepherd ‘leashing’ sheep to follow them.
We have a lot of different reports with leases errors these last weeks. I heard or read somewhere, that hearthlings lease objects so that no other entity can pick them up. That way only one person can use one object at a given time (even if he/she hasn’t lifted it yet because it’s walking towards it).
Or something like that. And to differentiate between your objects and other faction’s objects there’s ownership or the player_id I think. To calculate the inventory.
Now that I look for just “lease error”, I do indeed see a bunch of them—no clue how I didn’t when I first made this topic. Why does that always happen to me? I must be doing something wrong. Can’t remember what I searched for in this particular instance. Anyway, of course, as always, feel free to merge if need be.
That sounds sensible about leasing objects being sort of like a claim mechanism for the hearthlings. If you manage to retrace the source for that, I’d be interested to see it.