Missing Montbars

[Grey Roger]

Here is Daniel Montbars standing next to Emilio Soares:

See him?

Neither do I. Here's why:

ChangeCharacterAddressGroup(characterFromID("Daniel Montbars"), "Tortuga_Port", "goto", "goto18");

I switched on visible locators in "InternalSettings.h", then went looking for "goto18", and failed to find it. It may be hidden away somewhere; it's certainly not near the dock where you're supposed to meet Daniel Montbars. His dialog line is:

LAi_ActorDialog(characterFromID("Daniel Montbars"), pchar, "", 6.0, 1.0);

which if I understand correctly gives him about 5 or 6 seconds to get to you before he starts talking, which he won't do if "goto18" is the other side of town or doesn't exist at all. I replaced it with "goto20", which is on the dock, and then he appears - sometimes.

If I have three companion officers, Daniel Montbars never shows up at all. If I have two, he sometimes shows up; if I have one, he usually shows up. At first I thought this was more officer-related weirdness due to me doing things the quest never intended, so after I'd met him, I thought no more of it and continued with the quest. Bertrand Ogeron probably did something similar when I returned with Martin de Urquiza. The problem certainly did happen again when the "Battle of Aguadilla" quest was about to end and Bertrand Ogeron had summoned the remaining captains to La Tortue dock to divide the loot, and this time, even if I didn't have any officers, one or more people often failed to show up. This line from "compile.log" may be why:

LAi_CharacterLogin -> many logined characters in location (>32)

It looks as though there are too many people already wandering around town and the game can't spawn Arnaud Fontaines, which breaks the quest as he's supposed to speak right after Bertrand Ogeron finishes. Sometimes Roxanne Lalliere doesn't show up either, and occasionally neither does Bertrand Ogeron. This would also explain why the number of companion officers has an effect but not a consistent one. One solution would be to reduce the population of La Tortue, otherwise this may cause a similar problem if any other quests require characters to meet you there. Or the entire conversation between Bertrand Ogeron, Arnaud Fontaines, Roxanne Lalliere and you could be moved to the governor's residence - after all, he's the governor, he shouldn't come to you, you lot should all go to him. (If the other two captains can't spawn on the dock because there are too many people in town then they appear on the town hall stairs instead, and on one attempt I'd talked to Bertrand Ogeron on the dock, went to the town hall to see if anyone was there, and the other two captains said their pieces while I was on the stairs!)

 

[Pieter Boelen]

The missing locator is probably because the old CoAS-based location did have it, but the new VCO-based one added by @Jack Rackham doesn't.
Using a different locator that does exist is indeed the simplest solution and should work.

The "too many characters in one location" issue has certainly been cropping up a few times the past two months or so.

This one was also in Tortuga: http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/stuck-at-tortuga.25048/
@Jack Rackham fixed it by temporarily removing the fixed town folk from the port and moving them back again afterwards.

There is also this one linked to Havana Port: http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/player-stuck-escort-quest-to-havana.25072/#post-507753
That one was fixed by me by applying a temporary .vcskip attribute to the location which removes all random characters from the location.
There is still an open question there to @Bartolomeu o Portugues on the number of BuildingSet lines used there.

This seems to happen in locations that have a lot of BuildingSet structures added (they count as characters!) and/or have a lot of fixed characters always there.

I figure that the simplest solution is the .vcskip method as that can be easily added and removed with one line of code in the appropriate spots.
That also removes only random characters who aren't needed and keeps the citizens in place so players can still ask for directions.
It also prevents any enemies from being generated in the location, which is good as enemies during quest scenes doesn't work very well....

 

[Grey Roger]

The missing locator is probably because the old CoAS-based location did have it, but the new VCO-based one added by @Jack Rackham doesn't.
Using a different locator that does exist is indeed the simplest solution and should work.

Yes, I'd guessed that the new model La Tortue was the problem. Changing the locator to one which exists near the dock does indeed work, I proved it.

Which reminds me - I had to replace it in this line, too:

ChangeCharacterAddressGroup(characterFromID("Roxanne Lalliere"), "Tortuga_Port", "goto", "goto18");

As "goto20" is already used for Bertrand Ogeron, I put her on "goto19" instead.

There is also this one linked to Havana Port: http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/player-stuck-escort-quest-to-havana.25072/#post-507753
That one was fixed by me by applying a temporary .vcskip attribute to the location which removes all random characters from the location.
There is still an open question there to @Bartolomeu o Portugues on the number of BuildingSet lines used there.

That must have worked. If Havana was going to be a problem then I'd have expected trouble during the quest to rescue Bartolomeu's crew. Or, for that matter, the side quest in other storylines to rescue Peter Blood's crew. I've completed both without any problem, despite a pirate crew, a hangman and a squad of soldiers being added to the scene.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Yes, I'd guessed that the new model La Tortue was the problem. Changing the locator to one which exists near the dock does indeed work, I proved it.

Which reminds me - I had to replace it in this line, too:

ChangeCharacterAddressGroup(characterFromID("Roxanne Lalliere"), "Tortuga_Port", "goto", "goto18");

As "goto20" is already used for Bertrand Ogeron, I put her on "goto19" instead.

Could you upload your changed files some time so I don't forget to change that for the next update?

That must have worked. If Havana was going to be a problem then I'd have expected trouble during the quest to rescue Bartolomeu's crew. Or, for that matter, the side quest in other storylines to rescue Peter Blood's crew. I've completed both without any problem, despite a pirate crew, a hangman and a squad of soldiers being added to the scene.

My fix applies ONLY to Escort Quests because it removes random characters from the destination until the active quest has completed.

Note that the Havana problem specifically applied to the PORT location. The Bartolomeu hangman scene is in town.

 

[Grey Roger]

Try this:

 

[Jack Rackham]

If you need any new/changed locators in Tortuga just tell me.