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In A0C10Y05 you escort some NPC to meet his/her betrothed NPC then escort them both to a temple to be married.
If you go directly to the temple and talk to the priest, the NPC you didn't go fetch will materialize at the same place as the priest (z-fighting together).
What makes the matter worse, fast travel from notebook will actually lead you directly to the temple (since it's the last thing mentioned in the quest, I assume). So this problem is even more likely to be experienced by players that do not take the time to read the quests...

(Problem first seen in a stream:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/430364673?t=02h33m21s quest taken
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/430364673?t=02h35m18s fast travel
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/430364673?t=02h41m30s click on the priest
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/430364673?t=02h42m18s second click starts the marriage

By the way after that quest nobody wants to talk to him anymore, but it's hard to tell if that was to be expected, or is some other 2 quests he took that expired, or...
PS Seems your reputation in some random region can suffer from that quest, but what was the chance that random region was the current one? I suspect the issue is that the ruler is chosen to always come from the current region I think the quest should tell right away the region of the ruler, so that the player can make more informed choices.

Also, like in this case, the quest is often given by female NPCs
Another streamer that just followed fast travel from notebook destination in the same quest:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/430134264?t=30m24s
But if the quest failed as it should if one goes straight to the temple, maybe they'd take more time reading quests?
That quest also ruined his regional reputation
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Gamesave in front of the priest.

The instant reward glitch is simple to fix. I've drafted a solution that I'll upload in the course of my fixes.

I need to see this one in classic. I don't remember the escorted NPCs getting placed into the temple at the end, but this is what happened when I tested it in DFU and what the quest file says should happen... It's odd.

I also have doubts that legal reputation should be affected by this quest.

I just spent the last hour or so trying to generate this quest in classic and it will not happen. I've tried everything I know. If someone can find footage of it on Youtube, that's about all I can think of now.

Here's a save. It took me a while, but I got it. The quests requiring higher rep than 0 to trigger can be hard to get.

Ah, that's awesome! Thank you!



My beliefs were confirmed:

1. Legal reputation does not reduce because of this quest.
2. The NPCs are not placed into the temple when you talk to the priest. The quest file says they should but they do not. Perhaps they still carry the hidden property in classic?

(The video is a short proof but I looked everywhere on a previous attempt and they aren't there. Also, that "dagtext error" didn't show up the first time I did it.)

So the problem with reputation is here:
"factiontype Province" is conflating legal rep with provincial standing, which aren't the same thing in classic.

In classic, if you go to the temple before fetching the woman, the priest is not clickable. In DFU, he is and the quest ends as if you had gotten both lovers. I think that's the main issue that needs fixed.

Spacing out the npc placement would also be a nice fix. I'm guessing placement of two npc billboards on exactly the same place silently fails in classic whereas it kinda works in the more robust DFU engine, with z-fighting.

It looks like in classic the click on the priest is cleared again unless you've already clicked the betrothed.
DFU acts on it immediately before it can be cleared.

I created a workaround in PR https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfal ... 1483/files
that should stop the quest from completing without getting the woman.