Hours of grinding stone gone...

[Martin]

...because i got too close to an AID building.. my ai companion dumped all of our collected stone into it. So I figure.. at least we can complete it and get the reward. Hour later, everything is finished.

No Reward. Nothing inside, no benches to be completed, no resources demanded. No essence from the box.

And this isn't the first time this has happened. These fatal bugs occurs more and more the closer to endgame you get. Gloom.. is certainly gloomy.

And yes it's EA and this is to be expected etc..

Still. I did get a Grendel Druid to give me a double buff to health and stamina.

[Tanyon]

Damn that blows.

I kinda wish those quests had like a job board that showed the ENTIRE project and all resources needed and checked them off as you completed them... because I had one where I thought I had finished it but then finally noticed that there was an entire separate building I actually walked past it several times.. then had to go get another bunch of stone and THEN inside that was 3 small tool boxes that required "refined wood" so I had to scour the land for chests to break apart to get refined wood.. all this for a MEASLY 21 T1 essence they need to increase that reward like 5x.. lol.... anyways that sucks. Sorry.

[Pegasus]

I noticed a couple of those aid quests that did not have an NPC in the vicinity. Those tend to not give me a reward even after completion. As if it were a bug where the quest rewarder is missing. Spent 20 minutes looking for small objects i might have missed. No reward no assistance, i am not Mother Theresa....

[Gnollmar]

Destroy the floor afterwards to get all the resources used back, I tend to do this with the aid buildings xD

[Battlepaw]

Yea they really need to add more controls to your companion, It's annoying that they can get into fights with passive mobs, like how they like to pick fights with automatons, etc. Then they go off gathering if you hand them anything they can gather with. If I could just get them to stand back and stay out of fighting instead of running in and getting splatted it would be nice. Just don't hand them a maul or they will knock down your base trying to defend you from spawns, etc. And don't even get me started about the fact that they give away resources in their inventory to aid quests without being asked. Yes, those stupid aid quests that often don't reward you worth ♥♥♥♥ anyways. It's definitely not worth give away 150 stone, etc for 20 some essence in return.

What the game needs is precise control over companions. There are plenty of good examples of needed features. The ability to give commands, to set follow distance, to set combat behavior, to be able to disable resource gathering when using tools. This is just the start. There are more games then I can possibly list that have good companion systems. This one needs a lot of work to be even remotely comparable.

[Hides in Bushes]

my slave keeps burning the high tier wood and lumber I give her to hold, every time I give her something burnable. she burns it. Im about ready to just fire her and not use a bot

[Kaziklu78]

While I get how frustrating that is... Hours? how did you spend house on stone? What are you building that requires hours to get the stone?

I stopped giving my "recruit" things almost instantly. I also took away all tools from her. She has a maul... she hits things that is all I need. They need some Companion controls to make them a bit more useful.

I see what they were trying to do... and honestly they can be super useful... if left to do there thing... but I like control.

[Wonko486]

I usually make one of those angler baskets, dump the important stuff in there before talking to the person at the aid site. Solved my companion enthusiasm problem quite well.

[DoppelEben - /ˈsatɪsfʌɪ/]

Originally posted by Hides in Bushes:

my slave keeps burning the high tier wood and lumber I give her to hold, every time I give her something burnable. she burns it. Im about ready to just fire her and not use a bot

maybe just don't give higher tier wood then!?
would be the same like when you would fire her. except all not burnable things would be carried anyway

"keeps burning" as in "I saw that she made it so I thought I'll give her higher tier woods again and again..." ?

[Gnollmar]

Originally posted by Wonko486:

I usually make one of those angler baskets, dump the important stuff in there before talking to the person at the aid site. Solved my companion enthusiasm problem quite well.

The companion will put items into the aid building without talking to the npc. Also, talking to the npc is kinda pointless, the quest will be done even if you don't

[Onivarious]

Sometimes you need to go inside the built building and look for items to finish like sleeping bags and such