How do I decline a quest?

[City Builder]

Hi,
Is it possible to decline a quest somehow?

I've been playing (trying to play) Rise of Mankind, and a quest came up that a buddy of mine said was not worth taking and that next time he would not, unfortunately he did not tell me how to decline the request and now he's overseas where I can't just ask him how to do that.

Is it possible or maybe he just thinks next time he'll decline it when he can't.

Thanks,

2ND question... (not related), I've been trying to play a game on Terra (I think that's it) and using the largest size, however it doesn't matter how many times I restart i seem to always get boxed in to a tiny little area right from the beginning. I would think that if the map is so Enormous that there would be plenty of room and the AI would be more spread out than it is. Perhaps I'm not setting a setting correctly?

 

[s.bernbaum]

Can't you just ignore it? I have declined them all by shutting off quests and random events in the Custom Game menu, so I can't speak from experience, but I have the impression from what I have read here that if you don't fulfill the quest by the deadline, you just don't get whatever the reward is. If that is true, ignoring it would be the same as declining it.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Just ignore it, and the AI will get it, or the timer will elapse. The only penalty incurred is that the AI might get something beneficial from it, and you miss out.

Many quests aren't worth it. I only bother with them if they are achievable without significantly messing up my immediate growth/economic/military plans.

 

[bakshi]

Don't do the quest or advance the age so the quest gets failed. Terra is a map that spawns everyone on the old world. So you will be boxed in with a lot of civs. Once your get astronomy you can go to the new world and rape and pillage people all you want and expand.

 

[CHEESE!]

Was it the Holy Mountain? That's the least useful quest in the history of every single quest throughout time... even getting up to do something and forgetting why- at least you get some exercise from getting up.

Was that incomprehensible? I'm jetlagged.

 

[Ambidexter]

You can ignore a quest. Just don't do what's required and when the era is reached when the quest ends you'll just get a notification that you failed to fulfill the quest. No big deal.

Some quests are good. I like the one where you have to build X harbors and Y caravels to get an automatic promotion for your ships because harbors and caravels are worthwhile things to have anyway. But if my military is doing fine and I get a quest to build a bunch of stables and knights, which I don't need, then I just don't build them.

 

[Bushface]

The game has an uncanny knack of handing me quests at the wrong time and/or in the wrong circumstances. Going through the list of quests and remembering examples, I've had :-
Quest 4, Harbourmaster; build 11 harbours (Huge map) and 6 caravels. My empire was landlocked except for one ice-bound coast.
Quest 6, Master Blacksmith; build forges, maybe get an Engineer specialist. This quest was announced two or three turns before finishing Education, which renders the quest obsolete.
Quest 7, Best Defence; build castles, get 25 EPs per turn from the Great Wall. This came up when I was one turn away from Railroads, again rendering the quest obsolete.
Quest 15, Warships. Same game as for quest 4.
Quest 16, Overwhelm; build a fleet. Also same game as quest 4.
As for quest 2, Holy Mountain, I've completed its requirements twice, by accident, and in both cases the mountain was a peak on a one-tile island in mid-ocean, making it impossible to settle nearby. Quest failed. No big deal, as the reward is pitifully slight.

 

[Alki]

Am playing as Mongols and was quested last night to build a bunch of Gers. No problemo.

 

[MazeMouse]

Funny about the useless quests, I usually get benificial quests.

Build 7 stables just when I'm about to plan a war with mounted units. Or "Build 7 libraries" just a few turns after I research Writing.

Or just randomly nice stuff like "build 8 swordsman" during a warprep

 

[MarcoPollo]

Quests can be a neat addition to a game that is easy. But I find that it is a pain against high end AI's.

Personally, I like the build X horse archers. No problem.