Privateering Mission

[HoroSaga]

I recently took my first Privateering mission during the noble war. It seemed straightforward enough - raze three locations and destroy caravans and patrols. I razed the three locations, took out a caravan, and wiped out at least three patrols.

Unfortunately, the quest is still telling me that I need to destroy caravans and patrols. I thought it was fairly straightforward, but apparently the patrols I've already destroyed weren't good enough to satisfy the mission objectives.

Are there specific caravans or patrols that I need to destroy? Is there a certain amount of them that I need to destroy? What am I missing?

[Johan]

no, when the 5 days runs out, your told to go back and the mission is complete. I am pretty sure the only thing you have to do to succed is burn the 3 places down. Everything else is just icing on the cake.

[daniel.123]

Yeah the wording in the quest is kinda unclear and confusing.

I thought i was going to fail it because the quest wouldn't end after i returned in 5 days

Didn't realise i had 5 days to achieve everything and go marauding for a bit BEFORE returning.

[HoroSaga]

Good to know, I suppose. Though honestly, I've kind of had my fill of marauding after just two days. I've already beaten down at least two-hundred assorted soldiers, mercenaries, and militiamen, and half of my brothers have debilitating injuries by this point. I'm just going to go find a safe spot to set up camp, so my guys can repair their armor and lick their wounds. I just can't afford to get into it with another stack of twenty-eight angry soldiers. :P

I wish I could turn the quest in early, so I could go take another job without having to "waste" five full days. :P

[WastedTrojan]

Even if you fail to burn down the 3 locations, you will still get paid. They just want you to go out and do damage. I recently took a privateering contract where I ran into 3 noble companies at the same time and was forced to flee. Before that I only succeeded in killing 1 supply caravan, 2 of the objectives and a mercenary company. The noble still paid me, he just said that my raiding wasn't the best but it was good enough.

[gungadin22000]

I can confirm this - the listed goals seem to be merely suggestions for damage you can cause to the enemy noble house. In my current playthrough, burning 2 of the listed objectives to the ground appears to have been enough to get paid the full amount for the quest. I think I also fought off 1 or 2 patrols, but that's it.

It would be nice if the reward for the privateering missions was scaled, same as the gold-per-head feature of patrol missions. As it is, I just finish the bare minimum required to satisfy the contract requirements and then go rest or raid unrelated lairs while waiting for the time to run out on the contract before going to collect my reward.