the missing daughter quests worth is on purpose its a noblemans daughter as for hostages their worth varies enough that rng can reduce the money making potentual of them each one is worth 0,1000,4000 tp which means you do need to grab a lot of them to get gold coins out of it
I hope this is okay. I didn´t mod the game, i didn´t cheat. It is, how it is.
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