Sorinne Gaerard is back... please make her shut up

AramDol

Look I paid the price to make her shut up, I did the mandatory match of tribute against an NPC, and it made her go away.
I only did it to make her go away, so I wouldn't have to hear "TAAAAAALLLES OF WE HATE OUR USERBASE!" *every* *single* *time* I did writs on *every* *single* *character*.
Now she's back to tell me there's a tournament that I absolutely will not ever play in? And I can't make her shut up? Can I dig around in the data files and delete all her voice files?

rpa

If you do your writs at Vivec City, Vvardenfell, learn the habit to take the 2 sec detour by other side of bank and you will not have to hear her. Easy to learn because she will remind you if you forget.

Edit:

You can go much closer like other side of timber pile if you do not stray too near of her. And mind not go to near to her when blacksmithing.

Treeshka

This exact same thing made me do card game quest line on my five characters.

DinoZavr

She is there to make players sincerely hate ToT.

tomofhyrule

The NPC who calls you back to Gonfalon does change around as you go through the line.

If you can do Sorinne's first quest, then also do the next one with the first Tourney round (playing in Daggerfall, Shornhelm, and then Wayrest).

Brahgas is the caller for the next sequence of quests and he's just standing there in my game. I don't know if it's a bug or not, but he isn't shouting anything at all.

FrancisCrawford

What if you decline the quest reward?

Anyhow, the state I'd like to leave her in is dancing barefoot (and miniskirted) on the bar. How can one do that?

Elsonso

DinoZavr wrote: »

She is there to make players sincerely hate ToT.

I think she is very effective at what she does, then.

noblecron

I've just been keeping the quest in my journal. Not even going to bother doing it. I hate ToT so much

AramDol

Treeshka wrote: »

This exact same thing made me do card game quest line on my five characters.

I play on NA and EU. I've done the quest 26 times. I am livid.

Jaraal

I keep wondering about this "brand new card game" she keeps talking about. Then when you talk to her, she steers you towards an old card game that's been out for over a year.

Classic bait and switch, except her switch is a dead end. Very annoying.

Elsonso

Jaraal wrote: »

I keep wondering about this "brand new card game" she keeps talking about. Then when you talk to her, she steers you towards an old card game that's been out for over a year.

Classic bait and switch, except her switch is a dead end. Very annoying.

I don't know what the writers were thinking when they decided to say it was "new". SMH. It doesn't age well.

BetweenMidgets

Absolutely agree, 1000000000%

I also take the route around vivec that @rpa posted, but it really annoys me that I took the time to do the quest on my toons so I wouldn't have to hear her yell all the time, and it turns out there is a part 2.

So awful

Hoghorn

i too take the route depicted above, between the piles of lumber then squeezing between the bank and the pile of blocks. sometimes the profession certification npcs glitch into my path, slowing me down, outa the way danel! zos should put a big lamp post beside sorinne with a flashing red light on top to warn innocent players away from her chipper saleslady spiel.

rpa

Would help if she had a telegraph around here indicating the AOE of her screaming trigger range. Like those irritating slowly wandering NPCs with stealth detection in Heists and Sacraments have.

vsrs_au

I decided to not let them bother me: when I go through one of the towns or "cities", I just regard all these NPCs exhorting me to do various things as part of the "urban" scenery, and even when a certain notorious character says "Do you know how long I've been looking for you?", it just makes me laugh.

I created 7 crafting alts on the weekend, after over 3 years of only having 1 character, so I'm getting a lot of these quest NPCs saying things to me, and if I let it bother me, it would ruin the game. So I don't.

Deter1UK

vsrs_au wrote: »

I decided to not let them bother me: when I go through one of the towns or "cities", I just regard all these NPCs exhorting me to do various things as part of the "urban" scenery, and even when a certain notorious character says "Do you know how long I've been looking for you?", it just makes me laugh.

I created 7 crafting alts on the weekend, after over 3 years of only having 1 character, so I'm getting a lot of these quest NPCs saying things to me, and if I let it bother me, it would ruin the game. So I don't.

This is it, every time I go to the local market I hear the same guys shouting more or less the same things.

If I let it bother me I'd never eat!

(The Tales of Tribute woman though... I'd happily make a Blade of Woe exception for... if it were permanent...)

bmnoble

Unless I am questing I just turn the games audio off, play my iTunes playlist in the background instead.

Be nice if NPC's that shout out for stuff in the various chapter and DLC zones had there own designated area's somewhere out of the way in zones, just include a section on the zone guide that directs players to that area if they want to start those quest lines.

NoxiousBlight

I accepted the initial quest on all my characters but never played a game of ToT. Keeps her silent as long as that first quest is in your log.

But a better solution would be to have ZOS stop making all these characters that shout at you all the time.

Hurbster

She should change her pitch to include 'it's one of the only ways for solo non-pvp players to get transmute gems'...

ApoAlaia

I had to pick up the quest on every character to stop listening to her bellowing.

Same with the FG quest, except good old Bera will actively chase you all the way to Secunda and still manage to somehow, in the absence of an atmosphere, utter the dreaded 'The guild has need of you komrad'

I swear ZOS loves to test the limits of our mental endurance.

And don't get me started with Curtaros singing 'The Star-Eyed Bride of Alinor', although that is in part my own doing.

'Let's do Lost at sea at the same time as The Psijics' Calling on every single one of my characters' past me thought... 'what an efficient way of doing things' past me thought...

If I could go back in time and slap myself across the face I would...

kynesgrove

I can't help but feel maybe using Brahgas as a herald to the game for the first time vocally would have been better.

Why is it Sorinne besides the fact that she's new to the game too?
It makes very little sense, if she's trying to advertise the game enthusiastically but simultaneously is reluctant to play during the first part of the quest once you get to the Hall.

If it was Brahgas:

• As a new player you might even be intrigued if you recognise his voice.
• Instead of bellowing he can talk in his normal toned voice.
• Perhaps he could lure you once you find yourself in your starter zones tavern.
• It is then also out of the way of main traffic areas.

"Psst! Hey there friend! Interested in a little game of cards?" Nice and subtle soothing voice.
It would make so much more sense if it was him because he's desperately looking for new players.

What might also help is if the NPCs didn't trigger the exact same line every single time.
There's absolutely no variation.
This is also partly why Stuga was too much.

Dragonredux

The walking ad has breached containment.

Seriously I'm so glad that I have the "Shut yer trap" addon.

Jaraal

NoxiousBlight wrote: »

I accepted the initial quest on all my characters but never played a game of ToT. Keeps her silent as long as that first quest is in your log.

But a better solution would be to have ZOS stop making all these characters that shout at you all the time.

Some of us, who regularly have 7+ Cyrodiil quests, 6 Imperial City dailies, 7 crafting dailies, plus 5 actually meaningful quests (like Master Writs) in our log can't afford to do this. Why ZOS has limited us to 25 quests (while we can have 200,000 items in our craft bag and thousands of furnishings stuffed in storage houses because they won't give us a furniture bag) makes no sense. But it's a reality that prevents many of us from accepting annoying quests to shut the carnival barker NPCs up.

Hapexamendios

She needs to be removed from everywhere except near the Gaming Hall in Gonfolon Bay. That is the only place she should be. Players should not have hear about a shoddy feature, imo, every city they go.

Ragnarok0130

Can you please allow the Blade of Woe to work on her? She seriously needs to pipe down.

ziggy29

vsrs_au wrote: »

I decided to not let them bother me: when I go through one of the towns or "cities", I just regard all these NPCs exhorting me to do various things as part of the "urban" scenery, and even when a certain notorious character says "Do you know how long I've been looking for you?", it just makes me laugh. .

It makes me sympathize with Sharp about running around in cities: "Ugh. People. Great."

FrancisCrawford

Elsonso wrote: »

Jaraal wrote: »

I keep wondering about this "brand new card game" she keeps talking about. Then when you talk to her, she steers you towards an old card game that's been out for over a year.

Classic bait and switch, except her switch is a dead end. Very annoying.

I don't know what the writers were thinking when they decided to say it was "new". SMH. It doesn't age well.

All the more because there were five founders of the game, not all still alive, etc., etc.

Luckylancer

Devs won't do anything about this because they don't care about player feedback. Community pointed out this peoblem with orsinium female orc NPC that harrased players in main cities but this hellish ToT woman is still implemented the same way.