Preston Garvy..... sigh....

[One Eye Jack]

Is there a mod that stops him from giving you quest after quest endlessly? There's no way to avoid them as it is. He just hands you a new one every single time you talk to him... no way to even say no.... sigh...

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by mortar031:

In my current play through he is still sitting in the same building where he starts. I ignored him.

This. No mod is needed. And you are not forced to do that quest or the ones he gives you later if you don't leave him there.

Or if you feel bad about leaving him and his misfits there in the museum, kill the raiders outside and the Deathclaw. His own fault if they stay inside.

[HFM]

Originally posted by One Eye Jack:

Is there a mod that stops him from giving you quest after quest endlessly? There's no way to avoid them as it is. He just hands you a new one every single time you talk to him... no way to even say no.... sigh...

Send him to a backwater settlement that you never go to once you finish his quests. You can back away from him to stop him from giving a new quest and having him at a settlement you will never got to again keeps you from ever seeing him again.

[darinbob]

There was one I used in the past that "fixed" what they thought was a bug, so that you only had one outstanding settlement quest at a time instead of 2. It greatly helped.

[PeaceMaker]

I dunno why people get so in a knot about Preston. I just ignore him if I don;t want any more quests, but I like that there's always something to deal with. Problems never end in a post apocalpytic land.

My only question is how does he get these messages? Does someone travel all the way to Preston says, "Hey! You Minutemen? heard you were in Sanctuary. I travelled 3 days to tell you my ma was kidnapped by Raiders, please help! Gotta go now, bye!" then leaves?

Yes, I guess that's it. Answered my own question. lol!

[Ffabbia]

Originally posted by PeaceMaker:

I dunno why people get so in a knot about Preston. I just ignore him if I don;t want any more quests, but I like that there's always something to deal with. Problems never end in a post apocalpytic land.

My only question is how does he get these messages? Does someone travel all the way to Preston says, "Hey! You Minutemen? heard you were in Sanctuary. I travelled 3 days to tell you my ma was kidnapped by Raiders, please help! Gotta go now, bye!" then leaves?

Yes, I guess that's it. Answered my own question. lol!

I can answer that. Mama Murphy tells him after picking up the SOS on her psychic radio.

"Ahhhh kid, I'm getting something......I see two farmers threatened by Supermutants who live in a hospital 97 miles away, quick! Send or the Vault Dweller! Tell them they have less than a year to get over there and help!"

As for Preston, I can confirm that We are the Minutemen mod not only does precisely what the OP asked for, but can also be safely installed, or uninstalled mid-game.

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by Ffabbia:

Originally posted by PeaceMaker:

I dunno why people get so in a knot about Preston. I just ignore him if I don;t want any more quests, but I like that there's always something to deal with. Problems never end in a post apocalpytic land.

My only question is how does he get these messages? Does someone travel all the way to Preston says, "Hey! You Minutemen? heard you were in Sanctuary. I travelled 3 days to tell you my ma was kidnapped by Raiders, please help! Gotta go now, bye!" then leaves?

Yes, I guess that's it. Answered my own question. lol!

I can answer that. Mama Murphy tells him after picking up the SOS on her psychic radio.

"Ahhhh kid, I'm getting something......I see two farmers threatened by Supermutants who live in a hospital 97 miles away, quick! Send or the Vault Dweller! Tell them they have less than a year to get over there and help!"

As for Preston, I can confirm that We are the Minutemen mod not only does precisely what the OP asked for, but can also be safely installed, or uninstalled mid-game.

Mama Murphy completely creeps me out... 🤣🤣

[ULTRA]

Just join one of the raider groups in Nuka World and then he only annoys you by acting like you dumped his sister and never gives you a quest again

[Volfogg]

I legit tried him once or twice as a companion. Now that's some "fine" radiant quest bombardment, slightly buggy too, he just goes right away to "I'll mark it on your map" most of the times, no description.
As a side note I noticed he's quite... popular with the townsfolk. Occasionally his "fanbase members" will give him stimpaks or other consumable, so that's a feature.
Sometimes, they cross long distance to catch up with him, like that scavver-trader near Hangman's going to the DC (What are you doing in my house?! Oh...)
I even saw bunker hill worker walk onto land mine just to gush over Preston...

[Chip Chipperson]

Enough About the Settlements Already Preston

Game-changing mod.

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Just join one of the raider groups in Nuka World and then he only annoys you by acting like you dumped his sister and never gives you a quest again

That sounds like a plan to me! Yup!

[SoloQ]

Ignoring them isn't that punishing. You lose some happiness for the timed ones, but if you've got the vault tech happy machines it goes up pretty quickly. Even missed assaults aren't that consequential.

It's Mama Murphy having visions of settlements in danger and then Preston takes the credit with his "I've heard word" smooth talking. When he knows darn well it's Murphy, high as a kite, helping to save the Commonwealth.