About the card game recruiter.

Tourist_McGee

I can't take it any more. Can we please have a way to shut her up. Every time i'm in a town, i have to hear her repeat that same stupid pitch multiple times. If i was going to play cards, i would've done it already. It's to the point where i dread going to town, i know she'll be there, ready to assault me ears with her pitch, over and over and over. It's like what video game hell would be like...

Crismac

At least allow me to use the Blade Of Woe on her each time I am in town.

Destai

It’s irritating with each new feature, we have to contend with another nagware NPC.

phairdon

With you on this. She is bloody annoying. While completing writs in Stonefalls yesterday, heard her spiel four times.

Dawnblade

Do you know how long I've been looking for you.

starkerealm

Dawnblade wrote: »

Do you know how long I've been looking for you.

"Stugga."

"Do you kno..."

"Stugga!"

"Do y..."

"Look at this guar."

"Do..."

"This guar is very temperamental."

"Do you kn..."

"This guar likes to feast on orc flesh."

"Do you..."

"This guar is easily startled by loud noises."

"Do..."

"Do not anger this guar."

"DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I'VE BEEN AAAAAAGGGHHH!!!!!"

*Wet crunching noises*

SeaGtGruff

All you have to do is talk to her and accept her quest; you don't even need to actually do the quest, just accept it. Then she will stop. So they've already given us "a way to shut her up."

starkerealm

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

All you have to do is talk to her and accept her quest; you don't even need to actually do the quest, just accept it. Then she will stop. So they've already given us "a way to shut her up."

Can you accept the quest if you don't own High Isle?

TaSheen

If you use Vivec City, as long as you make a dogleg around that area on the dock, you don't hear her. I don't hear her anyway, as I have voices off, and subtitles on - but I don't see her "pitch" lines either by making the dogleg: go to the equipment writ board running close to the clothing station, do clothing, blacksmithing, woodworking, then pick up the consumables writs from that board, finish writs, run straight out the other side of the writ board to deliver the writs. No noise, no subtitles.

kringled_1

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

All you have to do is talk to her and accept her quest; you don't even need to actually do the quest, just accept it. Then she will stop. So they've already given us "a way to shut her up."

Given how many quest givers there are who will shout at you, though, this isn't a solution for most of them because of the limit in the quest journal.

SeaGtGruff

kringled_1 wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

All you have to do is talk to her and accept her quest; you don't even need to actually do the quest, just accept it. Then she will stop. So they've already given us "a way to shut her up."

Given how many quest givers there are who will shout at you, though, this isn't a solution for most of them because of the limit in the quest journal.

I know. And I myself try to avoid accepting quests which then fill up my quest journal because I'm not ready to do them yet. So in my case, I generally avoid annoying hawkers* if I can, or just try to tune them out, or go ahead and accept the quests from hawkers that are too annoying and too difficult to avoid. *And that includes guild traders and NPC merchants who hawk their wares, except you can't shut them up by accepting a quest.

starkerealm wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

All you have to do is talk to her and accept her quest; you don't even need to actually do the quest, just accept it. Then she will stop. So they've already given us "a way to shut her up."

Can you accept the quest if you don't own High Isle?

I'm pretty sure you can accept a quest that's offered in a zone you have access to even if you don't own the pertinent chapter or DLC yet. At least, you could back when the Clockwork City DLC was released, because I had recently bought the version of the Morrowind chapter that included the base game, along with the Guilds & Glory bundle of the first four DLCs, and when the Clockwork City DLC was released I accepted the Clockwork City quest from a character in Deshaan (IIRC), but couldn't enter the cave that the quest marker pointed to because I didn't own the DLC yet, and I was very reluctant to buy any Crowns for the purpose of getting more DLCs. Eventually I did get the DLC, but until then the quest sat in my journal.

kargen27

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

All you have to do is talk to her and accept her quest; you don't even need to actually do the quest, just accept it. Then she will stop. So they've already given us "a way to shut her up."

That isn't a solution. The dialog with the NPC should actually be the first quest. You click through all the dialog and she says thank you for listening and you finish quest.

Kisakee

Can you believe it? DRAGONS! In your own home country! What are you going to do?!?

starkerealm

Kisakee wrote: »

Can you believe it? DRAGONS! In your own home country! What are you going to do?!?

"This one does not know, but he hopes they will stop defecating on the carpets."

Carcamongus

Destai wrote: »

It’s irritating with each new feature, we have to contend with another nagware NPC.

I just want to say I love the term "nagware".

My necro, who refuses to do most questlines, has a hard time evading so many quest-pests. Stuga is a meme by now, but a particularly infuriating NPC is the stabbed guy from Western Skyrim. He's dying and bleeding profusely from a bad stab wound, but he still has the energy to run after you. If memory serves me right, he dies right after you talk to him, which makes me wonder whether he might have survived had he run to a bloody healer!

FluffWit

Took what? 5 years or so for Stuga to stop chasing us.

Just be patient guys card lady should be sorted by 2027.

starkerealm

FluffWit wrote: »

Took what? 5 years or so for Stuga to stop chasing us.

Just be patient guys card lady should be sorted by 2027.

...when they shut down the servers.

MJ202

Okay, perhaps I've been unfortunate (...or maybe fortunate?) to have not yet encountered this card lady.

phairdon

MJ202 wrote: »

Okay, perhaps I've been unfortunate (...or maybe fortunate?) to have not yet encountered this card lady.

"Hear Ye card sharks & collectors"

BretonMage

kargen27 wrote: »

The dialog with the NPC should actually be the first quest. You click through all the dialog and she says thank you for listening and you finish quest.

Hear ye, ZOS!

MJ202 wrote: »

Okay, perhaps I've been unfortunate (...or maybe fortunate?) to have not yet encountered this card lady.

I think she's in the base game intro cities, Vivec City, Solitude and Alinor. It's particularly bad in Solitude because she's right next to the wayshrine.

I find her the loudest of all the intro quest NPCs, and actually sounds like a TV ad, which is disturbing.

Destai

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

All you have to do is talk to her and accept her quest; you don't even need to actually do the quest, just accept it. Then she will stop. So they've already given us "a way to shut her up."

No, they continually give us content like this and people keep saying do it differently. We get it, there’s a new feature and they wanna feel like it’s successful. There’s too many stalking NPCs and it’s starting to feel like the character of zones has been ruined by the game of whack-a-mole we have to play to not be annoyed by the mountain of filler content like prologues and popups.

There’s a more respectful way to deliver content that doesn’t border on harassing your customers.

Destai

Carcamongus wrote: »

Destai wrote: »

It’s irritating with each new feature, we have to contend with another nagware NPC.

I just want to say I love the term "nagware".

My necro, who refuses to do most questlines, has a hard time evading so many quest-pests. Stuga is a meme by now, but a particularly infuriating NPC is the stabbed guy from Western Skyrim. He's dying and bleeding profusely from a bad stab wound, but he still has the energy to run after you. If memory serves me right, he dies right after you talk to him, which makes me wonder whether he might have survived had he run to a bloody healer!

I remember laughing hard when I wrote a review on that NPC. Like this dude has been stabbed and is booking it through the city to give me a letter or something. Does anyone just stop for a second when they’re developing this and think, is this annoying?

captainwolfos

"One of my friends at Two-Moons tells me that they've finally stopped chasing invisible butterflies. What a relief! I was worried about them"

"Your eyes are like muddy puddles, found deep within the swamp"

"Comrade, a word!"

"Mmmmmyes YES! YOU are the ONE my MISTRESS SEEKS!"

Et cetera, et cetera.

Each new character is a new level of hell.

SeaGtGruff

In other words, there's a simple way to shut her up, but some people don't want to do it. That's their choice, and that's okay.

katanagirl1

I must not be going to the right cities because I have only heard someone talking about it maybe once or twice.

BretonMage

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

In other words, there's a simple way to shut her up, but some people don't want to do it. That's their choice, and that's okay.

I think the only way that is would be fair to those of us without unlimited funds is if either: 1) the quest can be completed without buying the DLC , or 2) our quest journal can accommodate an unlimited number of quests we can hide. I don't particularly want to be forced to buy a DLC just to shut her up.

AlienSlof

Taking the quest is all very well, but there are now so many NPCs pitching their ads that it just becomes a cacophony of noise in every town and we have only a small limit on how many quests we can have open at one time.

"You there!"

"Do you know...?"

"Hey cardsharps!"

"3 2 1..."

"Excuse me please!"

Etc, etc.

As overwhelming and annoying as it is to me who has played since early beta, to a new player, this must be confusing and even more overwhelming.

Unless someone can recommend an add-on that mutes them. There used to be one I used all the time, but it hasn't been updated in a very long time.

I don't even have High Isle and still the card game announcer hollers it at me everywhere!

Failing that, please give us a setting to turn them on or off. Before I go as gaga as Uncle Sheo!

Destai

captainwolfos wrote: »

"One of my friends at Two-Moons tells me that they've finally stopped chasing invisible butterflies. What a relief! I was worried about them"

"Your eyes are like muddy puddles, found deep within the swamp"

"Comrade, a word!"

"Mmmmmyes YES! YOU are the ONE my MISTRESS SEEKS!"

Et cetera, et cetera.

Each new character is a new level of hell.

I got my gf into the game a few months and within a week she turned dialogue volume off. It's just too much.

whitecrow

starkerealm wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

All you have to do is talk to her and accept her quest; you don't even need to actually do the quest, just accept it. Then she will stop. So they've already given us "a way to shut her up."

Can you accept the quest if you don't own High Isle?

Yes. I did and I don't own High Isle yet.

NeuroticPixels

Thank goodness I’m on PC and can use the NPCMuter addon.

https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1267-NPCMuter.html

Carcamongus

captainwolfos wrote: »

"Your eyes are like muddy puddles, found deep within the swamp"

You mean to say that prime example of Argonian romantic poetry doesn't melt your heart every time?