Need more time on 'Manual laborers' quest

[snuggans]

10 days is not enough because you can easily spend weeks merely chasing down looter parties which are the same speed as you or faster, and there is no guarantee that you'll get any prisoners after a battle. additionally, because prisoners slow down your party speed, you'll want to drop them off piecemeal at the quest-giver before you meet the quota, and if you fail the quest you lose those prisoners and get nothing for them. failing this quest early on could easily put your finances in the red because you've been spending wages each day chasing down looters that can only be captured if you corner them into map boundaries

 

[Earth Dragon]

I disagree with this in general. Many of these quests give you WAY too much time. “I desperately need these hogs delivered, that’s why I’m giving you damn near a year to do it”

You have lots of control whether you get prisoners or not as well. Equipping blunt weapons on yourself and doing hideout raids with troops and companions with all/mostly blunt weapons yields plenty of bodies.

Instead of lots more time, I’d say maybe the body count does scale as high as fast. Maybe this one could give you a few more days, but most need to give you less time to pull them off. 2 days is more like a week in this game

 

[Lornloth00]

I prefer the 10 times the price per prisoner like in the patches before 1.8.0. I think that only getting 5 times the normal price per prisoner is very low for a quest that pops up infrequently.

My tip for this quest is to have over or close to the amount of prisoners you may need for this quest before accepting the quest. Once I see this quest is available I get as many prisoners I can then drag them to the notable for payment. Some quests are a good way to load up on valuable bandit prisoners like raiding bandit hideout quests, the caravan quests and the brigand quests are great ways of getting prisoners when you see that this quest is available then turning in the quest after you have a load of them. It may seem cheesy and not very immersive to finish this quest this way but this is the smartest way to beat that short deadline.

 

[Earth Dragon]

I think there should be a flat add to the prisoners instead a multiplier, or a combination. They need working bodies, not slave soldiers, so why does it matter that they are a bandit boss? If anything, you want the lower tier weak-willed guys.

So I would push that the quest gave something more like +100 per body or *2 + 50 to reward you a little for better bodies if that’s a thing we feel is necessary.