[0.299][1Z][Gameplay] impossible to end "rats" quest ( not fixed in [0.3][1Z2] )

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In the following save game http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5057853/quest_pb/Quest%20problem.EleSav I have killed the rats and I am near the inn which has given me that quest. When I go to the yellow inn to get my reward, nothing happen

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Ditto this. I am focusing on doing quests this play through and finely got the rats quest and can not complete it.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Hmm, it did work for me the one time I got that quest.  I had a dead rat ("for proof") in my inventory until I got back to the inn.  But perhaps it's an intermittent problem like the damsel in distress seems to be, where sometimes you get the reward and sometimes you don't.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Publius, reply 2
Hmm, it did work for me the one time I got that quest.  I had a dead rat ("for proof") in my inventory until I got back to the inn.  But perhaps it's an intermittent problem like the damsel in distress seems to be, where sometimes you get the reward and sometimes you don't.
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I had that dead rat in my pockets for over 400 turns... :p

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

In my game when I attempted to land on the Inn's square to turn the rat in my dude would overshoot it like he was on a water slide going into a square next to the inn. So I was unable to complete it since I couldn't actually land on the Inn anymore.

Another quest I couldn't complete was rescuing some noble's son. My troops had the unit in their stack and when they brought him back to my town the unit just sat in my town and there was no completion.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I've gotten the rat quest 3 times now.  The first two times I was able to complete it, but the third time (on 0.30) I was not.  One difference between the third time and the other two was that in between getting the quest, killing the rats, and returning for the reward, the game crashed and I had to reload from an autosave.  I wonder if there's some active quest information that's not being stored in the saved games. 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I have done it two or three times with 0.3 and has worked fine. (The Damsel and Knight quests have worked fine too)

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Still better than when the rats appear in a tile you can't get to....

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting strager, reply 7
Still better than when the rats appear in a tile you can't get to....
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I've been able to complete a couple of those quests by using the raise land spell to allow me to get to where I needed to go.  I think both of them were escorting someone to an estate for the reward.  Of course first I had to travel down to the southwest where the earth shard is and defeat whoever was there.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

I wonder if there's some active quest information that's not being stored in the saved games.
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OK, scratch this idea.  I just failed the rats quest again (i.e. I carry the dead rat back to the inn and nothing happens), but it didn't involve loading a saved game in between getting the quest and completing it.  I had loaded a saved game, but it was before I got the quest.