Governor quest failure

[Meow Seb]

Just had a quest to intercept a ship leaving from Cartagena and going to St John. I had enough time left so I did some other quests and in the last few days I went to St John to wait for the incoming ship. Looking around I can't find it anywhere and the quests just fails, probably lowering my reputation again.

Did I have to find them somewhere on the route? They're not even reaching the damn destination.

[wolvescream]

Ships appear the exact day they are said to appear. Not one hour earlier, not one later.
Look into your log. It says the data of mission taken plus time it takes. Calculate and be there the right day. Go from worldmap to sea. You should hear a bell, stating the next quest level activated. Activate "Sail to" and look, whether the ship can be seen. Should be there. But most likely you can not see it, since it´s on the other side of the island. When you leave sea, back to world-map, mission fails. So either sail around the island for half an hour of realtime or save before going to sea at destination. If ship is in the Sail-to list, but not visible, move to another side of the isle and try again.

[Meow Seb]

Says I have 18 days to intercept them, I'm already at their destination 3 days earlier than that limit.

I am also there when the log says I missed them so something is not right.

I'll try to wait in real time.

[Lordsamuel]

Originally posted by wolvescream:

Ships appear the exact day they are said to appear. Not one hour earlier, not one later.
Look into your log. It says the data of mission taken plus time it takes. Calculate and be there the right day. Go from worldmap to sea. You should hear a bell, stating the next quest level activated. Activate "Sail to" and look, whether the ship can be seen. Should be there. But most likely you can not see it, since it´s on the other side of the island. When you leave sea, back to world-map, mission fails. So either sail around the island for half an hour of realtime or save before going to sea at destination. If ship is in the Sail-to list, but not visible, move to another side of the isle and try again.

well maybe a few hour earlier since i recently did a interception mission for a ammunition/transport ship and it show up like a few hours before the exact day they will show up

[Lordsamuel]

and i will say they show up in the direct person mode so be sure to be far away enough from the fort when coming from the world map since they are kinda a pain to deal with and btw be sure to board ammunition/transport ship and not sink it they have a insane amount of bombs, cannonballs, grapeshot, weapons repair equipement and gunpowder