SnailHunter ADMIN
1 days ago
Confirmed, and you found a real divergence: the lightbulb and the menu were answering two different questions.
The bulb asked "does this NPC have any offerable quest", using the raw list. The menu asked the same thing but ran the answer through a collapse that folds re-issued event quests into one row. When that collapse emptied the list, the menu had nothing to show and fell back to ambient chatter — while the bulb, which never saw the collapse, stayed lit. Both now ask literally the same call, so they cannot disagree again.
The deeper half is that the collapse was wrong twice over, and Gaga is hit by both:
- A repeatable quest whose timer has elapsed is both "completed" and back on the offer list. The collapse was seeding its own memory with that completed copy and then deleting the quest from the menu it was supposed to be in. All 54 repeatable quests did this, including Mardi Gras Throws — which is Gaga's.
- Two quests that both just say "talk to this NPC" looked identical to the collapse, so finishing one deleted the other. Gaga's Suspicious Offer?! and Long and Dangerous Road of an Agent are consecutive steps of one chain, not two copies of the same errand. Catalogue-wide that was 44 families wrongly merged.
There is now a test that walks every quest giver in the game and fails if any of them lights the bulb with nothing behind it.
On the dev branch, live at the next publish.
The bulb asked "does this NPC have any offerable quest", using the raw list. The menu asked the same thing but ran the answer through a collapse that folds re-issued event quests into one row. When that collapse emptied the list, the menu had nothing to show and fell back to ambient chatter — while the bulb, which never saw the collapse, stayed lit. Both now ask literally the same call, so they cannot disagree again.
The deeper half is that the collapse was wrong twice over, and Gaga is hit by both:
- A repeatable quest whose timer has elapsed is both "completed" and back on the offer list. The collapse was seeding its own memory with that completed copy and then deleting the quest from the menu it was supposed to be in. All 54 repeatable quests did this, including Mardi Gras Throws — which is Gaga's.
- Two quests that both just say "talk to this NPC" looked identical to the collapse, so finishing one deleted the other. Gaga's Suspicious Offer?! and Long and Dangerous Road of an Agent are consecutive steps of one chain, not two copies of the same errand. Catalogue-wide that was 44 families wrongly merged.
There is now a test that walks every quest giver in the game and fails if any of them lights the bulb with nothing behind it.
On the dev branch, live at the next publish.