Annoying Location Quests

[Rezox]

I really love this game and after a break from it I just came back and I got one of these location quests. The location I need to look for was over the sea so I needed to walk all the way around it (later I realized I could have used the port to the city on the top but who should know that it would be there..
So my question is, why did they added that? It's free gold, but without fighting it's like really a waste of time. I mean yeah you could attack it after you encounter it but I was at day 2 and the walking to this place took like 4 days..

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[turtle225]

This is more a problem with your map seed than the quests themselves. Sometimes you can finish these quests in less than half a day.

They are good early on for easy relations boosts or to do when your bros are recovering.

[Windoze]

Decline the contact if it's not worth it.

[Rezox]

Originally posted by Windoze:

Decline the contact if it's not worth it.

Yeah.. if I would have knew it would be there I would have decline it ofc..
I just walked the whole way up to the point just to see if it's really there.
In my opinion this quest should get a rework so that such stuff isn't a thing and it would not be hard to change. Like give a marker where to go and interact with the outpost/hideout. left click on it for an option to attack or spy. and spy would tell you which enemies are in there. and the quest would be something like "go there and spy".
but running around like an idiot to look for something that is on the other side of a sea is really annoying in my opinion.

[LDiCesare]

The quest locations look like they are chosen based on distance in a straight line and not distance to travel, so missions like that near the sea often are not worth it.
You have to read carefully if the mission hints at a a direction. In your case, "NW of Steinkai" or " long way north from Steinkai" would both look suspicious and you'd want to avoid them.

I think it's a problem with the quest generation. They create/pick locations a certain distance away but that distance should not be a straight line but shortest walkable distance instead.

[suejak]

I love these contracts, but yeah, it's more just to do with the location itself in your particular case. As others have said, the game will sometimes identify a camp that's across an uncrossable water barrier as being "just to the north," but in reality you have to walk quite a ways to get to it.

Once you get used to them, you can get a pretty good nose for where the locations are likely to be. Climbing nearby hills or mountains often spots the camp in no time. And in many cases, you can clear the camp you find for even better pay!

But I personally would be able to eye up the contract in your case and conclude that it's almost certainly not worth.

One "problem" with BB is that it has what a friend of mine has described as a nerd bias, in that it gives a massive advantage to people who simply know things that a normal player could never be expected to figure out. This is true throughout the game at every level, from recruiting to events to builds to tactics to enemy perks, etc.