glad its all taken care of mate and maybe ur soultion will work for someone else kosh

Agarmir to Dragon Captions. Glad your found the solution. Unfortunately Open Cities can cause conflicts. Was it load order or something else? Always good to know in case others have the same problem.

Uh, I'm a little confused Agarmir. Did you find a spot in Bravil where it updated, or did you change load orders so that it loads after Open Cities, or what exactly did you do that fixed it? If we want other Open Cities users to find the answer, it would be nice to know. (Or else, I'm really confused and just didn't see the solution you used.)

You are talking about the "add topic" bug in the game engine?
Where is you have a quest where "addtopic x" is triggered by clicking on an altered "GREETINGS" and a mod or DLC loading later also alters any "GREETINS" (whether or not an 'addtopic' is involved) then the game engine will failed to properly index the new topic and cannot find it.

Hi Lefty. Could the mods or one of the mods involved be modyfied so that the "add topic" is actually actually added rather than the "greeting" being modified?

Thi may sound like a stupid question but when it comes to scripting I am stupid.

sorry that I haven't answered lately, I've been away from home.

SO, the problem simply was that the quest didn't updated itself to "I arrived to Bravil, blah blah..." It didn't update even when I entered the castle hall.

Seems that these quests need the "load between tamriel worldspace and the city" when arriving to quest related city.
When I disapled open cities, it worked normally.
don't know about the load order, I changed it but it didn't help me....

oh, and it seems that it does this with every quest that are "like the skooma one" (like pesants revolting).

it was a simply solution after all....

where did you get this file from? there is another version of tec that requires you to go to the city... you might be using a diffrent version...

well, I'm using the version that works with patrols (entering the great hall).

well, maybe I have a wrong version then...?

It is a good question, but I know zip about scripting, and have no modding skills. I have never written a word in the CS. I just use the CS for gameplay clues, to get information to use in the console, and to proofread when playtesting.
To avoid the add topic bug, I GUESS the best way is to have the topic added by a quest stage, or something else other than recieving the "GREETINGS".

Ah, then you are using the DC-TEC version. I think it was originally altered to allow for Open/Better Cities which was why it required you to enter the main hall of the castle rather than just the city gates. Unfortunately, if Open/Better Cities changed their mods radically since that time, it may be broken again in that area.

DC-TEC can no longer be updated as per agreement with the original modder, so we are unable to keep up with them if the Open/Better Cities modders are making such alterations. If you are able to work around this problem, that may be your best bet. There is an updated version of TEC itself, but it is known to conflict with Open/Better Cities and does update the quests upon entering the city gate.