maybe you start exploring too late?

ai now REALLY farm quests... if you explore too late the world is empty

well i cant tell in my last game which i completed i NEVER got a chance to fight the area boos nor the area itself

when i got there there were like 10 stacks of enemies farming everything :/ and the place was empty i could only find a few  high lvl quest and couple of arenas

even thogh i knew i wasnt strong enough so i went back and pimped my heroes and then when i came back ai did everything 

I explore early and have seen no quests in .86.  That's a big negative change from .77.

sure more than 0 should be expected.

Maybe some of the quests could be per player? That would make exploring the areas the AI has already explored a bit more interesting, and I think per-player quests could fit into the lore.

 i dont know

from 1 side i hated in my game when ai was quite strong and farmed everything

it made the second half of the game a bit boring (even though i just concentrated on war so i wouldnt have time to quest other way)

but from the other side making quests for player only would give a "artificial" feeling to the game

i dont know i think the game need a solution to prevent someway or at least make difficult to farm every quest/monster

btw i tried on normal maybe on higher diff its impossibe cause monster are too strong to take them down fast

if you only found a quest very hard my suspicion might be correct, you started wandering too late and ai already farmed everything  already

maybe you were unlucky too with spawn and didnt get many close, dunno

I am playing on "Mountainous" and there are no quests at all. I am an avid scouter. At least I have Wildlands though.

yeah i tried a few start on challenging and its brutal

well even in normal ai farm quests very soon but higher diff lvl they just wipe the world very soonish, dunno if they cheat or something, or mabye its a weakness of the autocombat maybe allowing many low units to take some big

also farming quests doesnt necessarly mean ai succed, maybe ai just pick quests and fail anyway quest inn disappear

no its a bug

i "finally" found the bugged map, it could be it depends on spamming ctrl N ?

it was the first time i hate the starting location and so i spammed ctrl n a bit but when i actually played the map was empty of quests apart from arena and another high lvl thing

Agree.  Zero total quests in a couple of games (~200 ish turns each so far) in .86.  Definitely a bug.

In my current gamed session 223 I have completed two quests, The killing Jar and escort noblewoman. There is one other quest on the map I cannot do yet.  This is a large map where I have explored a third of it.  While the AI may have cleaned out their areas, I managed to block one sided of my kingdom with a city and it was a while before I met anyone else on the other side.

I have not seen any rat killing quests in .86