Kidnapping at Greentop Nursery (bug?)

[soopytwist]

While I was doing the Vault 81 side quest (no not the cat one) I got a new quest come up called Kidnapping At Greentop Nursery, and the text: "I should talk to Preston and let him know I was unable to help Greentop Nursery with their kidnapping".... er, what kidnapping? I never got a quest for this! All I got was this one to say I was unable to help them! What madness is this?

I've just one through my previous saves, I have never, ever received a mission to save someone who's been kidnapped from Greentop Nursery (or anywhere else come to think of it). How can I save someone if I'm never given the damn mission in the first place?!

​I assume gallivanting around Vault 81 bugged th​at​ quest.

[Shahadem]

Sometimes the game doesn't give you the popup when a Settlement is slated for being raided. The kidnapping event goes through the whole raiding system and when the popup doesn't warn you about the event that a Settlement has a problem/is getting raided, you can wind up missing the event until it fails.

[JH]

It's just a radiant quest. You failed it because you took too long, and presumably, whoever was kidnapped got killed. I am not aware of any bug that would prevent the quest showing in your quest log, it is more likely you missed it when scrolling through. It's no big deal, just ignore it.

[sdack]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

Sometimes the game doesn't give you the popup when a Settlement is slated for being raided. The kidnapping event goes through the whole raiding system and when the popup doesn't warn you about the event that a Settlement has a problem/is getting raided, you can wind up missing the event until it fails.

It can happen that one has to defend one settlement, and while one fast travels to it to defend it may another occur, which then can not pop up (perhaps because of the time overlap).

Hence should one always check the misc. quest entries to see if anything occurred while one is/was busy with something else.

[✠Deser✞🅵☣⚔⚔♏✠]

Originally posted by soopytwist:

While I was doing the Vault 81 side quest (no not the cat one) I got a new quest come up called Kidnapping At Greentop Nursery, and the text: "I should talk to Preston and let him know I was unable to help Greentop Nursery with their kidnapping".... er, what kidnapping? I never got a quest for this! All I got was this one to say I was unable to help them! What madness is this?

I've just one through my previous saves, I have never, ever received a mission to save someone who's been kidnapped from Greentop Nursery (or anywhere else come to think of it). How can I save someone if I'm never given the damn mission in the first place?!

​I assume gallivanting around Vault 81 bugged th​at​ quest.

Do you have the unoffical patch installed?

[soopytwist]

Originally posted by ✠Deser✞🅵☢⚔⚔M✠:

Do you have the unoffical patch installed?

No I don't. I have very few quests active and made several saves before that popped up. I loaded each save to check if the quest ever appeared - it didn't. The only quest I got for it was the failed one while in Vault 81.

[soopytwist]

Defo a bug, look:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=880168470
This is after talking to Preston about not being having any luck at Greentop Nursery, despite not actually going there in the first place. The quest is stuck as an active quest even though I completed it - or rather failed it.

Is there a console command to fix this? Maybe reverse the quest so it starts proper so I can actually do it this time?

[soopytwist]

Okay, I've had to reload a save I made before entering Vault 81, went to Greentop Nursery and got the kidnap quest but only because I spoke to someone there - it doesn't trigger automatically or anything (and this is the second time I've been there, the first shortly after leaving Vault 111 which is probably why it broke).

This means of course that I now have to do Vault 81 again... f***k it. I'll leave it for some other time, can't be arsed to do it again now.

[Lawman]

I just did it. I did the quest in V.81 to help Austin cure his poisoned bite from a mole rat. After that I went to Greentop Nursery and talked to the settler. He said they kidnapped his wife and there was a ransom of 300 caps. This is like $1m. So I gave the settler the ransom money. Passed. In all honesty, I failed this. I loaded the previous game save, and tried again. It passed. Nice.