How can I modify quest .txt files to give myself a longer deadline?

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thebunnyrules
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How can I modify quest .txt files to give myself a longer deadline?

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I tend to do tedious travel using travel options instead of fast traveling between destination and have noticed that the deadlines quests give me are too small for the amount of time I need to travel. Especially if I want to travel to several locations in the same trip.

There's already a No Rush main quest mod. I'm looking to make a mod that adds more time for side quests. Say a quest originally gives you 18 days, I'd want to set it to 68 days or even 118 days.

For example, say I want to modify quest 00B00Y00.txt in the Quests folder, how do I modify its deadline?

Is it, in the clock line:

Clock _1stparton_ 00:00 0 flag 17 range 0 2

If so, how is this line interpreted? How do I get the total amount of time allotted to this quest? What does flag 17 mean? And range 0 2?

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Re: How can I modify quest .txt files to give myself a longer deadline?

Post by pango »

Flags and ranges are actually unused, as you can see in the code:
https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfal ... ck.cs#L187

If you're interested in details, some work on reverse-engineering clocks deeper has been done before,
viewtopic.php?t=1655
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