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Re: Daggerfall: Buggy quests

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From: ww... Warren Tzu Hua Wang
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 00:00
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Keeper of Time (kee...@netcom.com) wrote:
: fd...@mail.utexas.edu (NuRgLe) wrote:

: >	I have taken to the practice of saving BEFORE I get a quest,
: >as about 10 times I have recieved the 'kill the wild animal in the
: >house' quests, gone to the residence,m and found the game would not
: >let me enter the building, even though it is clearly marked on my map
: >when I asked the peons for directions.. 
: <<SNIP>>

: 	I also have a problem with those screwed up quests.  One time the
: Fighters Guild sent me on a quest to clear out Bank of Dagerfall of
: rats and bats.  The problem was, when I got there, NO ANIMALS!  There
: was nothing there that shouldn't be.  I even talked to the bank
: 'teller' and there was nothing about a rat or bat infestation.  I
: think if you blow off a quest, your rep goes down a notch.  This is a
: problem since you have no choice but to forget the quest.

I realized last night that saving before getting quests really is a good
idea even if it is kinda cheating *coughes about a patch*  The damn
knights guild sent me on a simple quest to go wipe out as many orcs as
possible, including Bazsomething, the captain.  I did so, returned and
apparently my reputation was so low that he didn't want to talk to me or
the quest was buggy in some other way.

Warren Wang, ww...@cs.utexas.edu
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From: ww...@cs.utexas.edu (Warren Tzu Hua Wang)
Subject: Re: Daggerfall: Buggy quests
Date: 1996/09/23
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