YES!!!

Perhaps not all Inns have to spawn on map generation ... but most I think, until borders start expanding and cities start leveling up (then Inns can sporadically spawn within Influence, with a certain 5-tile minimum distance between Inns)

So ... while Quest "givers" could be repetitive, its not so bad if quest "destinations" still pop up out of thin air. For instance, having a hidden temple or dungeon pop up out of thin air makes a good bit of sense (secret entrance found).

I liked the event where the spiders were guarding the hidden armor ... probably best quest I have done so far .. although getting the Dragon's egg was also pretty fun.

Also, certain quest destinations could be Spawn points for monsters. Like Trolls Pass could spawn trolls, and a Ruined Fortress could spawn monsters and rarely a demon.

Thumbs up for this idea!

Make inn more persistent, so that the inns laid within my influence will generate better quests IF I have invested more Adventuring Tech than other players.

Quests will get repetitive eventually, in a sense that you've done the same quest a few times or the reward don't worth your trouble or other reasons.   This is, imho, quite unavoidable minor issue.   The game will not know when we player lost interest to quests, but there should be great UI inplace that players can glance at the new quests quickly.  

I am all for a per-turn event log.  New quests should be recorded there.   Player can click on the particular entry of the quest to see the detail, or click ignore to ignore it.   The 'new quest' entry on the event log may looks like that:

"New Quest: Rescuing the princess in a far far away land, may give you 500 glidar and sword of rightuousness"  "ACCEPT quest" " Ignore quest"

Add a quest screen separated from the other screens in the knigdom overview. It should have 3 tabs, Offers, Current, Barred:

Offers appear at a rate dependent on population, adventure tech, amount of inns in your border, and maybe more things. Once an offer appears it appears in the notification at the left side of the screen. In the offers screen, you can see details of location, rewards, and what you might expect. If you don't accept it for X turns, it vanishes. If you click Ignore, another one will appear faster.

Current shows just the details, maybe also a "Give up" option.

The Barred shows the offers that you can't get since you lack the necessary adventure tech. These would not incur a notification, yet be visible here.

Perhaps in Barred and Offers there will be a preffered level to set, so that if you select lvl 2, mostly lvl 2 quests appear. This might also be researched to fleshen out the adventure tree.

Completely agree with OP.

I really don't like calling them "inns". Just seems like standard fantasy cheese. I just think of them minor settlements. There are several threads discussing how inns right after the cataclysm is a bit of a immersion killer....but I agree that they should act as a standard resource, can be improved by players, give out multiple quests, and gain more as players level up their quest tree.

Immersion wise, I'd like to see them initially as struggling makeshift settlements out in the wastelands. Kinda like a refugee camp...in fact, I would just merge these two ideas together. A refugee camp would act as the initial quests hubs, plus pay out a small population increase. Once the players starts expanding and upgrading his/her kingdom/empire via techs, the refugee camps develop into minor settlements and give out more quests plus other bonuses such as increased population, gold, ect...

We could still have some way to give out quests that are not tied to static quest hubs. For example, a broken down caravan, a traveling sage, or, after defeating a mob, they either tell you something or you find something on their corpse. The higher your up in the quest tree, the more chances of this happening in your territory.

Good suggestions, but I'm sorry, inns being on the map at all at the game's start seems just completely laughable to me.  The world is still smoldering after the Apocalypse, there aren't any cities on the map, but there are inns all over the place?  Nuke inns on the map all-together.  Instead, make emmerging "inn" tiles temporary "water holes" or some other thing that can naturally emmerge that would attract adventurers and such. 

Second, I would make quest acquisition mid game a function of city building and adventure tech.  Basically, you'd stop relying on the "water holes" mid-late game and start relying on "hooks" provided by inns throughout your empire.  The more inns you have, the more provacative quests tend to fall at your doorstep (just an example.)

Saw your other thread - perhaps we can fold the refugee camp and inn together? Eg. Refugee camps are unimproved Inns, when the player gains control of a refugee camp, he can improve it into an inn/village for a pop bonus in the controlling city and the benefit of hooking the camp/inn's questgiving abilities into his adventuring tech level?

Or inns could start as refugee camps and then upgrade to Inns naturally over time.

But I think there should be a "crowd factor" where quest locations have to be at LEAST 2 tiles away from the nearest other quest location.

Yeah, the implication of making inns --> refugee camps, or more like resources, is that it enables you to control how closely they appear with the map generator instead of trying to come up with special rules for them.

By quest location I didn't just mean how far apart Inns are. Inns should be at least 5 - 10 tiles apart.

No, I mean the Ruined Fortress shouldn't be 1 tile away from the Inn, and the Terrorized Village should be isolated, and the wolf infested forest should spawn on a forest tile.

Oh ... and the Mystical Temple of XiauDun that is far away should be friggen FAR AWAY (like half the map)

Love this idea.

Quest Hubs are better to be consitent imho ...

while QLs that can spawn creatures ... I've already talked about.

Minor QLs may or may not spontaneously spawn as soon as you get maps to them ... but it may be better if they existed "invisibly" before you discovered the Quest or Tech as rubble or some such feature unidentifiable and impossible to build on.

I found inns to be the rawest point, so I aimed to address that first.  I do think that if you're adding a location to the map, you should have a plausible reason for it.  Even something as small as a popup saying: "villagers have uncovered the entrance to an ancient tomb" or "locals report the appearance of a dark tower, there is sorcery about it" would be sufficient for notable locations.  Inns, however, imply civilization - or at least some semblance of it - and that's why I think the players should be able to tie them in like resources.

Refugee Camps (Basic & L1 Quests) --> Camps (L2 - L4 Quests) --> Inns (L5+ Quests) as a combination of Turns since taking ownership and progression inside of the Adventuring Tech Tree. (level is used as a term for purposes of separation based on Difficulty and or Rewards gained)

It would seem strange to have a refugee camp be "consumed" but never become anything "better" over time as your Kingdom grows in both size and Prestige.

This prevents both un-needed Clutter and insta-spawns that can break immersion...

I must say some of these are solid suggestions to solving the clutter while maintaining a good mechanism for delivering quests..

Here is another type of quest hub we could have.. as we level adventure lvl add a structure called bounty board.. then add a shop like action button to interact with it..  it could offer x amounts of quests for each level...