Fixed Surrendered Quest Captain Refuses to Fight

[Hylie Pistof]

Someone else has mentioned this before but I could not find that thread.

A pirate ship chased me into range of a fort and then surrendered. All I want is the treasure they hid. Dunno why they got so upset.

Anyhoo, I visited the ship and the Captain wanted to fight but then did not draw his sword. Rather than going back to last save I just killed him and got big penalties for striking an unarmed man. So now I have 2 ships and am a rascal. Kinda wish he had fought or just surrendered.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

After you killed that captain, do you know if you looted any weapons from him?
I wonder if he didn't have any weapons at all or if he just didn't equip them.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

That is really quite odd; according to a DumpAttribute, he DOES have a Cutlass and should have it equipped too:

items =
  blade4 = 1
equip =
  blade = blade4

Also, he's got the "isMerchant" attribute, which is probably the cause of this.
But WHY DOES HE HAVE THAT???

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Yes he did have a cutlass.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

@Hylie Pistof: Execute this through console, then try again from your save:

   ch = CharacterFromID("Treasure Pirate");
   DeleteAttribute(ch, "isMerchant");
   LAi_SetGuardianType(ch);

For some reason, random quest enemies were being set to MerchantType.
I've now made this change in quests_common.c to hopefully prevent this:

  LAi_SetGuardianType(ch);   // PB: Matches with Coast Raider initialization
//   LAi_SetMerchantType(ch);   // makes captain cower in hold if you threaten him with a sword

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Err, how? I use the console maybe one time per year.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

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[Hylie Pistof]

That worked. He had a Venetian Cutlass and killed me 5 times before I got lucky. And now I am not a rascal.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Since I applied the same fix directly in quests_common.c as well, this should no longer happen.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I tried this with Voysey but it did not work.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

DOUBLE fix for this included in the ZIP here: Mod Release - Build 14 Beta 4 Internal WIP For Testing | Page 6 | PiratesAhoy!