Spy Mania tradeoff not activiating

[kianasjohnson]

I cannot for the life of me make the spy mania trade off work. I sit around and hide at night in the scrap quater near the drop off and yet no one shows up.

[AtomMOD]

Greetings!
Here is how it is supposed to work:

Every night, Ruslan comes out of his home, goes to the large cable reels, hides something in the stash hidden in them, walks away. Before morning comes a man comes to the reels and takes the thing from the stash, then walks away.
To complete the quest step, you must take the item Ruslan hid out of the stash and then move with the dialogues (there are multimple solutions to the next quest step). You have the whole night to get the item out, since it's not picked up until morning starts.
You do not need to wait for the person who comes to pick the thing up, he won't talk to you in the first place. Just wait until Ruslan leaves it in the reels and walks off, pick it up and confront him (or don't).

[kianasjohnson]

Originally posted by AtomMOD:

Greetings!
Here is how it is supposed to work:

Every night, Ruslan comes out of his home, goes to the large cable reels, hides something in the stash hidden in them, walks away. Before morning comes a man comes to the reels and takes the thing from the stash, then walks away.
To complete the quest step, you must take the item Ruslan hid out of the stash and then move with the dialogues (there are multimple solutions to the next quest step). You have the whole night to get the item out, since it's not picked up until morning starts.
You do not need to wait for the person who comes to pick the thing up, he won't talk to you in the first place. Just wait until Ruslan leaves it in the reels and walks off, pick it up and confront him (or don't).

Thank you! That makes sense. I also think I messed up somewhere along the line and Ruslan may have been "taken care of" by someone so I guess i'll try to finish that quest the proper way again next time, I just decided to lie to his suspicious neighbor to complete it.

[AtomMOD]

Originally posted by kianasjohnson:

Originally posted by AtomMOD:

Greetings!
Here is how it is supposed to work:

Every night, Ruslan comes out of his home, goes to the large cable reels, hides something in the stash hidden in them, walks away. Before morning comes a man comes to the reels and takes the thing from the stash, then walks away.
To complete the quest step, you must take the item Ruslan hid out of the stash and then move with the dialogues (there are multimple solutions to the next quest step). You have the whole night to get the item out, since it's not picked up until morning starts.
You do not need to wait for the person who comes to pick the thing up, he won't talk to you in the first place. Just wait until Ruslan leaves it in the reels and walks off, pick it up and confront him (or don't).

Thank you! That makes sense. I also think I messed up somewhere along the line and Ruslan may have been "taken care of" by someone so I guess i'll try to finish that quest the proper way again next time, I just decided to lie to his suspicious neighbor to complete it.

This is also a valid way to finish the quest! Spooking Ruslan or getting him killed are all multiple available quest endings here.

[beluga25]

I got 500 rubles from him for silence but the quest doesn't clear and don't see how
to turn him in as an option per online walkthroughs.