The interesting story of my campaign (1.05)

*Spoilers?*

Well it seems some people are having some issues, I just thought I would tell the success story of my campaign so far.

After dying to the spider (oh, equipment doesn't actually equip when you buy it... restart) I proceeded to New Pariden, and was told to eliminate some Darklings.  After clearing the fishing village and then the encampment, I found that the barrier had not been removed as the ruler of New Pariden promised.

Fortunately, I discovered that even though you cannot access the "Speak to" diplomacy button, double clicking on their coat of arms still brings up the dialogue.  Angry at their treachery, I declared war, and proceeded to stomp this supposedly powerful channeler with Auto-resolve.  Despite this, the barrier refused to budge.

After scratching my head outside the barrier for many turns, my starting city finally grew to the point where its area of influence covered land past the barrier.  Looking in my spellbook, I discovered the Teleport spell.  Free at last!

Who can say what the ramifications of conquering New Pariden will be.  As I head into the wilds I can only hope they were not particularly important in the grand scheme of things.

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Just curious. As I understand your post, you walked character back to the city of New Pariden and did not get the dialog about completing quest? I enjoyed how you took umbridge at their treachery and conquored the city.  I will have to try that some time in a new campaign. Maybe wait til they lower the barrier then attack them.

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I did receive the message telling me the barrier was removed, but when I arrived it hadn't been.  There have been some other posts about it, seems like the bug was introduced in patch 1.05.

Things have improved since then, and apart from some fertile land that doesn't like being built on (the farm vanishes after the first turn of building) I haven't run into any serious problems.  I did consider conquering ALL the friendly factions, but decided against it as the rest of the rulers seemed rather more cooperative.

I'm really enjoying it actually, despite the rough edges... stayed up way too late last night playing it. :)