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Post by Smitty on Nov 19, 2004 19:26:46 GMT
I did a search for this... either it hasn't been brought up or I didn't search very well.
Ok, 2 people start a quest together, do the entire quest together and are together at the end talking to the person, so they are pretty much next to each other the whole time.
The quest involved retrieving an object.
The person with the crown (leader of the group of two) is the one who picked up the object even with the 2nd person standing right there. The leader is also the one who talked to the person at the start and end of the quest.
The leader was the only one to receive the reward and the exp... shouldn't both people get the exp and gold since they were next to each other from start to finish?
The quest had to do with retrieving something... from a cave... near giants (vague enough?).
Did we do something wrong? Doesn't seem right that only 1 person in the group gets the reward... speaking of that, can a DM give the reward to the other person since they didn't get it the first time? It was a good chunck of exp lost....
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Post by Smitty on Nov 19, 2004 19:54:42 GMT
Oh yea, neither person had ever done this quest with these characters ever before.
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Post by serpitus on Nov 19, 2004 20:05:15 GMT
This might be dumb or obvious but did both people get the quest. As in both talk to the gaurdman? Not as a group but individually each talk to the initiator of the quest?
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Post by Silentus on Nov 19, 2004 20:05:53 GMT
Sounds like you should have both gotten the XP, providing of course that you were in the same party (Im assuming that you were.)
Based on what you've said, I cant tink of any reason for you not to have both gotten it. One of the reasons I dont recommend for people to to the scripted quests together at all.
As far as DMs giving out missed XP - Yes, we can certainly do it, however very rarely do so for scripted quest problems. The canned DM responce to this is 'Try again next week'. Problem is that there is little way to know if the problem is legit without having followed you for the whole quest and the quests work right 99% of the time without a party so its expected that the party did something wrong in the process.
One possibility (this is a stretch) perhaps if one character had a negative faction reaction to an NPC and the other one didnt. I've had this problem very rarely doing quests solo - I dont know if it could apply to a party in this fasion.
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Post by Truth on Nov 19, 2004 21:34:06 GMT
Your best check is for each person to make sure their journal updates properly at each stage. The quests (other than the odd bioware faction tweak) work 100% of the time.
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Post by JoScMa on Nov 19, 2004 22:06:26 GMT
Smitty asked me about this just after he posted and from we talked about, something other than human error messed up. They told me they were both together from start to finish. The faction bug shouldn't have anything to do with this because this quest involves no NPC's that turn hostile after a conversation.
Like Silentus mentioned, rarely do DM's compensate for lost XP because we have no way of knowing if it is legit or not. In the past, people have scammed DM's in this fashion. So you will have to take your lumps and move on unfortunately.
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Post by Parinor on Nov 20, 2004 4:21:19 GMT
Smitty didnt mention if as he talked at the end of the quest, both were in the same room/near each other.
you have to be next to each other while completing as well
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Post by Makzimia on Nov 20, 2004 13:35:49 GMT
Final word on this, again, ALL quests work as I designed them to. They completely assure that no cheating is possible at the level I want them to. If a group of players is doing a quest, the leader MUST talk to the last NPC and the other players be present, otherwise, only the leader will get paid. In addition, if someone in a party completes the quest and the leader is not present the leader will still get paid wherever they are, that person will not. It was made this way to assure the party was not split up to complete quests everywhere. It all uses on percieve for the NPC, they have to see you  . Topic closed, again  . Makz. |
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