I visited the castle really early on in the game, I think just after I met the minutemen, and cleared it out then proceeded to build a settlement in there. Preston Garvey is a resident.

I've done his previous 2 quests but now when I speak to him he just keeps sending me to nordhagen beach and somerville place over and over again.

I've got around 15 settlements, not all of them have people though.

Did I screw the game up by taking the castle too early on?

Anyone?

I don't know, try doing more quests for him maby he will give it to you and maby he won't.

That's what I'm saying, the only quests I get from him are helping nordhagen and somerville. When I go and complete those 2 quests and come back to him he sends me right back to nordhagen and somerville.

ok so now he basically just sends me to jamacia plans, county crossing (how many times are they going to kidnap people there lol), nordhagen and somerville.

Is anyone else having this problem or am I missing something? I have like 20 settlements now and they're all aligned to the minutemen....what more does Mr. Gravy want (I call him gravy, because it's funnier)

Is there something specific you want from him? There are more settlements to be discovered via his "I've heard about this place..." quests he gives out in adition to all of that make-work garbage time stuff, but IIRC, pretty much all of them can be found and acquired just by finding them on the map and/or talking to settlers in need you may find there.

If you've done the "Old Guns" quest to build artillery at the castle, I believe all you get after that from Preston and the Minutemen are those radiant settlement quests, up until you have to choose which faction to build the teleporter to get into the Institute with, and who to side with at end-game when it's time to choose sides and start nuking people.

Most people decide to unfriend Preston eventually- he's a pain in the butt.

I took the castle early, what I'm saying is that I can't seem to trigger the actual quest to take the castle now. I can't seem to progress along the minutemen storyline.

I finally got it....

I think you have to have a ertain happiness at a certain number of settlements because after I started building up a couple of other settlements someone got kidnapped from sanctuary and then he gave me taking independence at the same time.