That right there is pure ironic gold. In BoS you are a mere recruit and yet you dictate when you take a quest. In Minutemen you are the general, and yet you are just assigned quests by your subordinate. No wonder people pick this game apart for details, they make it too easy!

After 700 hours of fun,

I thought I'd leave Preston behind and play a little Far Cry Primal,

But there's a problem with that...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87106516/preston.png

I lol'd so hard my dog started barking ! Good stuff...

Yeah, Preston really needs to be tweaked so that he only gives a mission if asked for one and only gives one at a time. Once you have all the settlements he should just stop giving you quests.

Same goes with the Castle. Even if I already have Preston quests, the castle announcement will just continually pile them on.

My game weirdly glitched out so that every time I spoke to him the conversation would start with my character stating that she was sorry that she couldn't defend against some supermutant attack, then he would give me another quest line but no quest would pop up. This was fine with me except that this conversation would take place no matter the situation. Even in the middle of quests with other dialogue... Like standing on the roof about to blow up the Institute.. "Sorry preston, I couldn't defend against the supermutants." "oh well, here's another quest.".. "Now all you have to do is press that button."

I laughed so hard I had to explain it to my gf. I got a weird look.

I've already thought about this. I like the Minutemen and Preston, but I'm planning on starting a new character when survival mode is released, and I'm going to skip Concord and the Museum of Freedom until later in the game. His quests just involve such a huge amount of traveling, and I'd rather not have to deal with them early on. Later in the game I can use a Vertibird to get around or teleport through the Institute lol

SofaJockey.. that was awesome!

I really want that to happen as a joke in another game! just out of the blue!

My game's Preston has mellowed out a whole lot lately with regard to quests. Only think he's given me one quest in the past week or so. Maybe he's bugged. Or maybe he's been fixed but players have become so used to avoiding him they haven't noticed yet.

I think Garvey has mellowed slightly on my game too though I barley see him as I sent him to a settlement I never visit. I do enjoy casually striking him about the head with my rifle if he crosses my path though, the ungrateful snot...