Are you surprised to see NPCs remain in the same place even after the quest is completed? Wish they would get smart and move?
Well this mod is for you

What this mod will do: It will move NPCs that "should" be moved after a quest is completed such as in the Beauty and the Bandit, where the quest giver just stays there and doesn't even go see her love. Whats up with that?
So this mod would have that NPC move into a new location in a non abrupt, natural manner.


Quests and NPC:
Aeta Wave-Breaker's Jewels- Aeta Wave-Breaker
Widowmaker- Botrir
The Shirt of His Back- Rasha
Kidnapped by Cultists-Malexa and Sason
The Scholars and the Mating Kagouti- Edras Oril, Thoronor
Pemenie and the Boots of Blinding Speed- Pemenie

While I really don't have a lot of stuff done quest wise, I have a solid enough base to feel comfortable with the wip, and I need help with more quests.

So, what other quests have these straggling NPCs that should just do something?

Aeta Wave-Breaker
Widowmaker
Rasha (shirt delivery)
And that Redguard who's wife was kidnapped by cultists.

Thank you very much.

I'll look em up.

Have them all recorded in my notes.

http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1027837&hl=. I used Beauty and the Beast as an example in that thread, but apparently she moves after the quest is really finished. Others from the top of the head: Pemanie, the guys in the Kagouti mating habits quest.

Great mod idea! Seeing these guys just stand around aimlessly after helping them out takes a bit away from immersion. That seems to happen with the majority of http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Miscellaneous_Quests.

I will definitely want this mod

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=6795 by Bolgo The Madd already "fixes" Maurrie Aurmine's quest:


This said, lettuceman44, no mod has the scope of what you intend to do. So I too will download your mod when it's done.

Really?

Well take that off my list then
Thanks for the heads up.

Pemenie, the person who gives you the Boots of Blinding Speed?

Doesn't she end up in Gnaar Mok anyways?

Never heard of the fix that AfroKing linked to. Sounds like a good idea to me. They should be together after fixing them up. It's kind of absurd that she just stands at the same place. (Also, I'd rather not have them (or any NPC really, except when it is explained, such as with Caius) removed from the gameworld after finishing the quest, but that's perhaps just me.)




Yeah, she just stands where she stops when the quest is finished forever. Also seems absurd after a while. I'd at least move her into Gnaar Mok proper and have her walking around there.

Oh! I didn't realize she just stands there forever! I thought at least there would be some ai wander lol.

I'm gonna see how that mod does it, and then if I like it I'll just incorporate it into my mod.

You know, it never ceases to amaze me the great ideas people on here come up with.

Thanks.

Agreed, brilliant realism. The Kagouti Mating Mabits scholars bothered me the other day. I'll add this to my mod list when you're done Lettuce.

No, she just stands there in one place.

Hey, I have a snag right now. A part of my script isn't working.
Can you guys check it out?
http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1037109

Hey, making good progress, just have a slight question.

You think Edras Oril, Thoronor from the mating kagouti quest would head to Suran? Or maybe hitch a rowboat to Pelagiad? There are also a bunch of manors and farms around the area too, so I don't know where to send them.

edit: I just noticed Suran has an apothecary, and that These two guys study flora, so maybe send em there?
edit: One more thing. Why aren't roads path gridded? Does that mean when I try an AI Travel command, it will be all messed?

Any updates on this? (I'm not much help on your question as I never pay much attention to dialogue and haven't even read the book, which may help when figuring out where to move them.)

Also, perhaps permacorpses might be something to look into as well?:



If not quorn decides to handle it in the MPP that is.

Because the AI can't use path grids between cells.
I don't know about the AI Travel, though. Hopefully someone else knows that answer.
But, there have been mods that've used it heavily. Dave Humphrys mods, maybe? (if that's anywhere near the right name)

Yea, I got a quest done
Pemenie will now appear in the shack with the Cammona Tong guys.

But I'm still unsure if AI Travel will work without path gridded roads.
I'm thinking have them move to a close location, and when the player isn't looking have them teleport to their destination.

Jeez, I've been slacking. You have no idea how your comments motivate me I'll work on it tomorrow. I got the base script done. Its a matter of copy paste, and making the necessary adjustments.

http://home.earthlink.net/~cyran0/MWPage.htm is the only mod I can think of that does this. The scripts might be worth a look.

I have been watching this thread with interest since its inception (even earlier than that when it was just a twinkle in lettuceman's eye). I agree entirely with the concept. It has been my intention to include more such epilogues to quests through LGNPC. Currently only the Foreign Quarter includes such a resolution, but there are others in the works. In the update to Traveling Merchants I am including some (for the lack of a better name) rangers that will patrol the roads. One Hlaalu ranger travels the road between Balmora and Suran where Thoronor and Edras Oril are encountered. I decided it would be unseemly for them to hang out there indefinitely so I disabled them after a day change and a few cell changes.

The reason that I have not posted until now is because I do not agree with your approach to the issue. Of course, that is none of my business. I acknowledge your right to mod anything you want. However I do not think it is necessary for these NPCs to have a new destination and be observed walking to it, nor do I think it likely the Redguard Pemenie will be offered asylum by the Camonna Tong.

I am not posting now to be critical of your choices, but to offer my support if you are settled on having NPCs physically travel to their final destination. You should understand that pathgrids will not extend across cell boundaries and that significant distances need be traversed in a series of AITravel instructions one beginning when the previous ends. NPCs will only execute their travel when their cell is loaded. This means that the player will effectively escort the NPC to their destination. If the player outstrips the NPC (or travels in a different direction) soon the NPC will cease to move until the player draws near again, hours, days or months later - hardly the timely resolution of the NPC's situation you are striving to achieve.

I advocate disabling NPCs when they are out of sight of the player and teleporting them to new locations should that be appropriate. It is much less problematic and likely just as satisfactory a solution to the matter. In the case of the trader Teris Raledran and his guar Rollie, a script attached to an invisible activator placed in the Foreign Quarter Canolworks, disables both of them after the day has changed and the player leaves the cell at least once.

Good luck with this project and feel welcome to contact me if you have any questions about travel scripting.

Wait, you are planning on having them walk to their destinations? I must have missed that. Sort of neat, but it does seem a trifle unecessary. *chuckle* It would be pretty cool actually, a little like Starfire's patrols, but seem like it would be a hell of a lot easier to just move them to their new destinations when the player is gone.

Is this project still alive?

Dead, I guess. Too bad.....