Better Quest Objectives
Version 1.5

----------

Description:

Have you ever wanted to turn those quest markers off but couldn't because the quest description doesn't give you any indication of where to search for your objective, so you're forced to blindly make a beeline to that marker, taking the wonder of exploration out of it? That's why I've created Better Quest Objectives! What I've done is edited nearly 250 quest objectives/descriptions, spanning over 160 quests, that have super vague or even non existing descriptions of where you're supposed to head next.

For example: This Guy tells you to go talk to That Guy. Well, That Guy is in a town you haven't been to yet because you're brand new to the land of Skyrim so you have no idea where that town is. Also, nothing in the quest description even mentions the name of the town. You're just supposed to remember the name of the town that This Guy mentioned. This is even worse if you picked this quest up 30 hours ago and haven't touched it since, which means you've probably forgotten the details of the spoken conversation. In this situation, I've changed the quest objective from:


"Talk to That Guy"

to

"Head to This Town at the eastern base of This Mountain and talk to That Guy"


This will allow you to progress the quest by actually navigating your map and not blindly following the quest marker.

I've left certain quests with ambiguous descriptions alone since finding the locations is supposed to be a riddle. Also, if the quest involves a journal that is supposed to shed light on the objective's location, I've edited that journal instead of the actual quest description. That way, you can still deduce the location of your next objective by reading any documents that pertain to the quest.

This mod also cleans up various typos and inconsistencies (for example, misspelled names or referring to a statue as a chalice, etc). If you find any remaining glaring errors, let me know and I'll fix them.

A few things I haven't done:

- Attach better descriptions to quests with randomly generated locations. I'll probably have to create additional alias references inside the quest, once I learn a little about Papyrus. You'll have to stick with using quest markers for these quests until then.

- The Companions questline or the questline that wipes out a certain guild because I haven't done them yet and don't want to spoil them for myself. I plan on playing through these with my next character, so I'll get to them after I've played through them.

- Map Marker updates. If a queststage automatically updates your map with an undiscovered location (grey map marker), it will still do that. I might look into disabling these in the future. It doesn't seem like a hard task, just a daunting one.

So that's it! If you think any objectives are still too vague or even too descriptive, let me know and I'll look into changing them. Please let me know when you come across any quests I missed. I tried, but I know I couldn't have hit them all. Any other feedback/criticism is also welcome.

Please endorse if you like it.

----------

Known Issues:

1. Some quests will display "[...]" where a radiant location, person, dungeon, etc. should be displayed, if the quest has already been started by the time this mod has been activated. This is because the radiant element meant to populate the "[...]" text has already been determined by the game and flushed from the quest's "memory", so to speak. These quests will display as intended the next time you go through them.

----------

Change log:

To find the names and details of the quests listed below, go to uesp.net and enter the quest ID listed into the search function.

1.0 - Better Quest Objectives released. The following quest objectives/descriptions were edited:
BardsCollegeDrum
BardsCollegeFlute
BardsCollegeLute
DB01Objective
DB03
DB04A
DB06
DB07
DB08
DB11
DBSideContract02
DBSideContract03
DBSideContract04
DBSideContract06
DBSideContract09
DBSideContract10
DA01Intro
DA01
DA02
DA03
DA04
DA07
DA09
DA10
DA11
DA13Intro
DA13
DA14Start
DA14
DA15
DA16
dunHunterQST
MG02
MG03
MG06
MG07
MGR21
MGR30
MGRAppOnmund01
MGRArniel02
MGRArniel03
MGRitual05
MQ103
MQ105
MQ202
MQ203
MQ205
MQ302
MS05Start
MS05
T01DegaineFavor
T01
T02
T03
TG01
TG02
TG05
TG08B
TG09

1.1 - Fixed various typos and added the following quests:
dunGauldursonQST
dunRebelsCairnQST
dunYngolBarrowQST

1.2 - Edited over 60 additional miscellaneous and "rumor" quests
CW01AOutfitImperial
DA15Rumor
DarkwaterCrossingDerkeethusRescueQuest
dunMossMotherQST
dunNilheimQST
dunSleepingTreeCampQST
dunShipwreck04QST
dunTrevasWatchQST
FreeformCaravansA
FreeformDragonBridge01
FreeformDushnikhYalA
FreeformFalkreathQuest01
FreeformFalkreathQuest03
FreeformFalkreathQuest03B
FreeformHeartwoodMill
FreeformIvarstead01
FreeformIvarstead02
FreeformIvarstead03
FreeformIvarstead04
FreeformKarthwastenA
FreeformKolskeggrA
FreeformKynesgroveA
FreeformMarkarthD
FreeformMarkarthE
FreeformMarkarthJ
FreeformMarkarthL
FreeformMarkarthM
FreeformMarkarthN
FreeformMarkarthO
FreeformMerryfairFarm
FreeformMorthalA
FreeformMorthalB
FreeformRiften01
FreeformRiften02
FreeformRiften03
FreeformRiften04
FreeformRiften05
FreeformRiften06
FreeformRiften07
FreeformRiften08
FreeformRiften09
FreeformRiften10
FreeformRiften11
FreeformRiften12
FreeformRiften13
FreeformRiften14
FreeformRiften16
FreeformRiften17
FreeformRiften18
FreeformRiften20
FreeformRiften21
FreeformRiften22
FreeformSalviusFarmA
FreeformSarethiFarm
FreeformShorsStone01
FreeformShorsStone02
FreeformSkyhavenTempleA
FreeformSoljundsSinkholeA
FreeformStonehillsA
FreeformWhiterunQuest01
FreeformWhiterunQuest02
FreeformWhiterunQuest03
FreeformWhiterunQuest04
FreeformWhiterunQuest05
FreeformWindhelmA
FreeformWinterholdC
FreeformValdDebt
MQ102
MQ105Ustengrav
MQ106
MQ201
MQ206
RoriksteadFreeform
SolitudeFreeform04
TGFenceCaravan
TGTQ01
TGTQ02
TGTQ04
WIAddItem07

1.3 - Edited the following quest descriptions/objectives:
CW01B
CW02B
DBOlavaReadingTreasureObjective
DBTortureTreasureMiscObjective1
DBTortureTreasureMiscObjective2
DBTortureTreasureMiscObjective3
DBTortureTreasureMiscObjective4
MGR12
TGCrown
TG04

1.4 - Big thanks to tunaisfish for coming up with the script that allows me to display radiant quest locations! One caveat is that if you load a save that has already progressed to the quest stage that displays the objective location, you might see "[...]" where the location should actually be displayed on some quests.

The following radiant quest objectives/descriptions now display location names:
DA09
DA10
FreefromOldHroldanB
FreefromShipsDawnstar
MGR20
MGR20B
MGR21
MGRArniel04
MGRitual05
MGRRogue
WIAssault02

The following radiant quest objectives/descriptions now display hold names:
BQ01
BQ02
BQ03
BQ04

1.5 - Thanks to chevenga for suggesting a few more descriptions! Edited the following quest descriptions/objectives:
CompanionsMiscObjective
C00
C01
C03
C04
C05
C06
DA11Intro
DBDestroy
dunBlindCliffQST
dunDarklightQST
dunForelhostQST
dunFrostmereCryptQST
dunHighGateRuinsQST
dunHillgrundsTombQST
dunMistwatchQST
dunValthumeQST
dunVolunruudQST
Favor151
Favororcssintro
MS08
MS10
MS10MiscObjPointer
TG03
TG07


----------

Manual Installation:

1. Unzip the archive
2. Place the contents of the unzipped archive in your skyrim/Data folder
3. Activate the plugin in the Data Files menu of the skyrim launcher

----------

Uninstallation:

1. Delete the BetterQuestObjectives.esp, BetterQuestObjectives.bsa and BetterQuestObjectives Readme.txt files from your skyrim/Data folder