"Red Herring" doesn't show up

[stef_28]

I have read that the hidden perk "Red Herring" will be activated after you have ridden Herring for 50km. I'm at 55km now and the perk still does not show up. Any advice or console command to activate it?

I have activated "Good Old Pebbles" first and decided to switch over to Herring and activate this perk as well; or is it blocked now for me because of "Good Old Pebbles"?

By the way: for "Good Old Pebbles" I needed 36.5 km and not the listed 35 km to be activated.

[wjpower2003]

I've only had Pebbles this whole play through, my horsemanship has been maxed out for ages, I've ridden more than the required distance and the Pebbles perk is no where to be seen. Quite annoying really.

[le_dede]

Originally posted by stef_28:

I have read that the hidden perk "Red Herring" will be activated after you have ridden Herring for 50km. I'm at 55km now and the perk still does not show up. Any advice or console command to activate it?

I have activated "Good Old Pebbles" first and decided to switch over to Herring and activate this perk as well; or is it blocked now for me because of "Good Old Pebbles"?

By the way: for "Good Old Pebbles" I needed 36.5 km and not the listed 35 km to be activated.

Fast travel doesn't count towards unlocking the perk and the total displayed in the stats is for all horses you've ridden, not just the current one.
There are no bugs.
You need to do 50 real km with Herring to unlock "red Herring" perk.

[stef_28]

Originally posted by le_dede:

Fast travel doesn't count towards unlocking the perk and the total displayed in the stats is for all horses you've ridden, not just the current one. There are no bugs.

I know that. I'm neither counting fast travel nor mixing up the ridden distances.

I have ridden Pebbles for ~36.5 km and the perk showed up. At ~41.5 km ridden distance I decided to switch to Herring and now I'm at ~96.5 km ridden distance. So, I have manually ridden Herring for about 55 km and the perk is not activating.

And I have never ridden another horse besides Pebbles and Herring.

[stef_28]

Originally posted by wjpower2003:

I've only had Pebbles this whole play through, my horsemanship has been maxed out for ages, I've ridden more than the required distance and the Pebbles perk is no where to be seen. Quite annoying really.

The perk shows up in the skill section under "Horsemanship".

[stef_28]

Ok, to answer my own question:
I had to ride Herring for about 57,5 km till the perk showed up.

I don't know if spaghetti coding is the problem or something else:
For Pebbles I needed to ride her 4-5% more than described and in case of Herring it was about 15% more...

[halfmonkey]

There's a weird overlap with the tutorial horse mileage (or if you stole a horse) and any perks that affect durability or horse speed. So it does seem to be "approximate" rules for Herring's upgrade.