Mount & Blade: Warband

Mount & Blade: Warband

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Are there any tools to toggle "radiant" quests off?
Not all of them, just the mail delivery quest.

All the quests lords send you on are fun or interesting except this one and it's the only mission I get 99% of the time.

If this mission appeared 1/10th as often and had nuance or maybe different outcomes it might be tolerable (eg. if the letters where secretly evidence of a tryst, or if you could pay a scribe to alter their contents OR the letter claimed you are a courier who was sent with a bag of gold along with this note and you have to lie or fight your way out of it.)

But I've delivered dozens of letters and it seems like a quest made specifically to bankrupt you with the added frustration of preventing you from experiencing most of the other quests.
Originally posted by Hooded Horse:
If you are getting it that often then the letter quest isn't actually blocking other quests, it is just replacing the "I don't have anything for you to do" dialogue. The reason it is appearing 99% of the time is that the letter quest has no cooldown, while all other quests are either getting blocked by cooldowns or are not eligible quests for the lord you are asking.

Warband has this (somewhat odd) system whereby quests once done are put on a global cooldown. Do a cattle quest for a village somewhere in Norway, and every village across the world won't offer you that quest for X days. Same for lords. Do the bounty hunt quest for one lord, and it will be over a month before a lord anywhere in the world can offer you that quest again.

Only a few quests either have no cooldown or so short a cool down that you don't notice them. Rescue an imprisoned family member is one.

So if you are getting letter delivery all the time, it means you have exhausted every other quest, and if letter delivery were gone too, then you'd just always get the "I have nothing for you to do" dialogue. So really the only solution you have is to let some in-game time pass, and the quests will complete their cooldowns and go back into circulation.
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Hooded Horse Jul 26, 2019 @ 5:34am 
If you are getting it that often then the letter quest isn't actually blocking other quests, it is just replacing the "I don't have anything for you to do" dialogue. The reason it is appearing 99% of the time is that the letter quest has no cooldown, while all other quests are either getting blocked by cooldowns or are not eligible quests for the lord you are asking.

Warband has this (somewhat odd) system whereby quests once done are put on a global cooldown. Do a cattle quest for a village somewhere in Norway, and every village across the world won't offer you that quest for X days. Same for lords. Do the bounty hunt quest for one lord, and it will be over a month before a lord anywhere in the world can offer you that quest again.

Only a few quests either have no cooldown or so short a cool down that you don't notice them. Rescue an imprisoned family member is one.

So if you are getting letter delivery all the time, it means you have exhausted every other quest, and if letter delivery were gone too, then you'd just always get the "I have nothing for you to do" dialogue. So really the only solution you have is to let some in-game time pass, and the quests will complete their cooldowns and go back into circulation.
Last edited by Hooded Horse; Jul 26, 2019 @ 5:36am
Introverted_One Jul 26, 2019 @ 8:45am 
Great Answer, Thanks a lot!

I tried save scrubbing and various old tricks to get the RNG to change or reset with some success so I assumed it was just me "rolling 1's" and I was getting sick of it, but I never even considered a cool down period.

It's used in a clever way too, these days I assume any cool down in a game will be accompanied with a flashing timer and the option to skip it with microtransactions.

I almost forgot there ever was a period where timed events wheren't used to manipulate and take advantage of players.

Lets hope the devs don't read this and include "quest skippers" for $3.99 a pop in Bannerlord.
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Date Posted: Jul 24, 2019 @ 11:13am
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