F*****!!!!! DAMN!!!! Spy Missions ... again and again .....

[SirRantsAlot]

Could it be possible that there are spy missions that should only demolate my reputation.
I actualy got one by north king, went out and wait ..... wait ....... wait ...... nothin happened but after two days it says you failed. THANKS for NOTHING!!!!
It ist just waste of time and why isn´t that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ isn´t fixed after that many years?
Is ther e cheat to find the f****** spy?

[krex]

Should spawn right outside the town.Get some more pathfinding and tracking.

[Senlassa Foxy Lassa]

It's a serious pain, once you accept the quest and leave it fast forwards through time for a few hours, and in that span where everything moves at light speed the spy leaves and hopefully you see it. You can find his trail leaving the city if you have the tracking skill and it will say "Party size = 1" and that is how you will know it is him and you follow that trail. The thing is if you do not get there in time you will miss the meeting (but you could still apprehend the spy,) so you have to follow this trail perfectly, and it's led me from Praven up until the Khanate before, so it gets pretty annoying to follow perfectly with the twists and turns. If you get only the spy you'll get 1000 and only lose one relation point and honestly the one time I got both of them my character did not have the ability to take prisoners, so I couldn't take him and I kicked myself in the face...........so I would've gotten it once, but yeah, I didn't.

[ZingingCutie23]

I never accept this quest, or the one that asks you to track down looters. If you don't get them straight away (the looters) they can end up on the other side of the map

[rsr1234]

Yeah, I never accept those kinds of spy quest after I failed catching run-away serfs quest TWICE.The only spy quests i ver took and actually succeded was the one from Ragnar to meet up with with one of his spies in khudan and another one was to sneak in a castle break out a Jarl from the dungeon.

[Thunderchief]

I saved before accepting the mission where you have to follow the spy and then catch both him and his master. I just kept reloading every time i failed. Each time the spy ran to his master who was standing beside a castle (different castles each time) as soon as I got close enough they would split up and the master would jump inside the castle and disappear while the spy sprinted off to the starting city.
I kept trying to catch the master and I succeeded once by approaching him from the direction of the castle he was closest to. Even with my 6.1 speed army it was a close one. After catching the master (by sending in only my manhunter type troops to fight) I followed the tracks of the spy but did not see him. The tracks ended at the city where i got the quest. Maybe I could have caught him if I had not followed the tracks and headed straight for the city but I somehow doubt it.
This quest needs some tweaking to make it possible for a greater variety of army speeds. Even with full cavalry I was slow.

[Killroy]

Originally posted by Namakan:

Should spawn right outside the town.Get some more pathfinding and tracking.

+1

[SirRantsAlot]

I have high path finding skill (10) and found no path for two days waitin outside the city and then it says mission failed. woooow great job developers. Would be nice to be warned in advance of this inability of programming or better just cut of this option. I am really angry cause of things like this.
And thx to everyone for help and warm words :)

[Senlassa Foxy Lassa]

Originally posted by koyangi:

I have high path finding skill (10) and found no path for two days waitin outside the city and then it says mission failed. woooow great job developers. Would be nice to be warned in advance of this inability of programming or better just cut of this option. I am really angry cause of things like this.
And thx to everyone for help and warm words :)

Pathfinding speeds up your movement on the outside map, Tracking is the skill that allows you to find the paths................yeah, I know what you're thinking, but that's how it is.