[BUG?][0.914] If party is defeated in quest battle, quest disappears.

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I just started a game, picked up an NPC, picked up the quest from a humble inn to clear out a rat's nest.  Both my guys were defeated, which sent them back to my city to recover.  The problem is the rats are still on the map (near death now), but the quest giving inn & rat's nest are no longer on the map.  So, if it takes us two tries to complete the quest, the quest giver loses interest?  The inn ceases to exist?

Seems to me it must be a bug.  The quest should still be available since I'm still alive.  I want to go back, kill the rats, and turn in the quest.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Also, this quest, despite being about RATS, shows a picture of a spider.  When choosing to battle the rats in the crypt, you actually battle a spider instead of a rat.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

you only get one chance on quests.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Interesting...whenever I get that quest I never ended up fighting the rats...it just says I took care of them and I proceeded to turn in the quest.  It has been this way ever since WoM.  Did they change this quest in 0.914?

 

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

i just got that quest too... i think it's bugged now.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

 

Its random.  sometimes you get to clear out the place without a battle and complete a quest and sometimes there is a spider you have to fight.

 

I would like to change the quests so that losing them doesn't fail the quest.  But as is they are working as designed.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

When you fail the monster is released on the main map.  I kinda like that.  Also I love that it is random as to whether you fight the spider or not.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Derek, reply 5
 
Its random.  sometimes you get to clear out the place without a battle and complete a quest and sometimes there is a spider you have to fight. 
I would like to change the quests so that losing them doesn't fail the quest.  But as is they are working as designed.
End of Derek's quote

Maybe replacing the Spider with a R.O.U.S. would keep the Quest more in keeping with it's original intent. }:)

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting scifi1950, reply 7

Quoting Derek Paxton, reply 5 
Its random.  sometimes you get to clear out the place without a battle and complete a quest and sometimes there is a spider you have to fight. 
I would like to change the quests so that losing them doesn't fail the quest.  But as is they are working as designed.


Maybe replacing the Spider with a R.O.U.S. would keep the Quest more in keeping with it's original intent.
End of scifi1950's quote

 

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Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Yesterday I released a Slag (sp?) by failing a quest. It took out one of my cities and generally wrecked havoc :)

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

yeah i'm not buying the kill a rat quest, fight a spider, reward is rat guts thing.  let's either fight rats or make it a kill a spider quest.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

The other day I did this quest and instead of rats, or a spider, Richard Simmons jumped out of a cake. I shook my head and cursed Derek. True story.

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

I played a game a couple of weeks ago where I got a quest to kill a named bandit. I ended up killing the named baddie but lost my army in the process to the remaining goons. Apparently, that counted as a failure.