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Posted November 14, 2014
I cannot, for the life of me, understand how you control the cattle in this game. I know it's a newbie question but the NPCs and manual have been useless on this regard.
Your time and honesty is appreciated.
Post edited November 14, 2014 by Hardurio
This question / problem has been solved by Zanianimage
Posted November 14, 2014
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Hardurio: I cannot, for the life of me, understand how you control the cattle in this game. I know it's a newbie question but the NPCs and manual have been useless on this regard.
Your time and honesty is appreciated.
Simply ride behind them and they will travel in the opposite direction of you. You do have to do a lot of zig-zagging or going back and fourth, since they're so slow. It's an annoying quest and hardly worth the hassle.
Posted November 14, 2014
Well... talk about not getting the obvious. Many thanks.
Posted November 14, 2014
use liberal use of the ability to stop the herd by going up to them.

Use spacebar to wait so that cattle moves in a straight line without reorienting themselves when you constantly move around.

or use TweakMB to make it so cattle follow the player directly

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,101731.0.html

it's not as bad as it at first seems, and i never have too much trouble with the cattle quest anymore.
Posted November 20, 2014
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Zanian: It's an annoying quest and hardly worth the hassle.
At least they make for great cash cows if you buy them cheaply at a village (preferably) close to a city, slaughter them at the gates and sell the fresh beef at the marketplace. Now that's easy money. :)
Post edited November 20, 2014 by Lemon_Curry
Posted November 21, 2014
That's a good point! Beef I buy usually spoils before I can sell it off. It's too bad I find the herding thing so tedious :) I wish it was just abstracted by being slightly slower and maybe mitigated by an animal tending skill.
Posted November 23, 2014
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Myxia: It's too bad I find the herding thing so tedious :)
It truly is and that's why I usually only buy cattle in villages near a city (and never pay more than 45 denars a head).
By the way, in the Kingdom of Rhodocks you can get around 400 denars per fresh beef!
Posted June 09, 2015
Wrong topic.
Post edited June 09, 2015 by shadowmakerr
Posted July 29, 2015
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Zanian: It's an annoying quest and hardly worth the hassle.
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Lemon_Curry: At least they make for great cash cows if you buy them cheaply at a village (preferably) close to a city, slaughter them at the gates and sell the fresh beef at the marketplace. Now that's easy money. :)
Cash cows. *snickers* Anyway, I'm guessing it makes sense to buy as close to the quest-giver's village as possible (or just get the mod mentioned in this thread. Hello, new game.)
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