I remember a forum user said they had 2 bonus quests active at once. The 2nd bonus quests (which was from the same questline if I recall right) was on the slot that is normally used for recurring and side quests. Has anyone figured what triggers this weird behaviour?
Now that Lady Egwene confirmed you can advance in the continent map while keeping some provinces free if you follow a "path", I'd like to advance 2-4 eras for extra expansions and higher era soliders. But I don't wanna risk getting out of RQ when doing so. At the moment I am in HMA era and HMA map with one RQ slot.
First I just wanted to clarify that there is no
specific slot that is ‘normally’ used for recurring/side quests.
Both non-story slots are the same and work in the same way; used for side quests when such are available, and if all available side quests are completed or aborted then they are used for recurring quests. And when a bonus questline is triggered (either LMA or IndA), it will take over either of these two slots (whichever slot you complete its current quest first, it will become a bonus quest). And if one also triggers the other bonus quest, then it will take over the 2nd slot as well.
Someone who had posted here in the forums about having two bonus quests, had 1 LMA bonus quest and 1 IndA bonus quest. (Having triggered both). A guildmate of mine, and even me in one city, had temporarily 2 LMA bonus quests at some point, but by completing one of them, one slot became again side/recurring quest (not sure if this was a glitch or not).
But as in HMA you only have 1 slot (2nd slot becomes available in LMA, around the time you conquer the 1st LMA bonus province and complete the relevant story quest), all this would not apply. You can’t trigger the LMA bonus quest while having only 1 slot, as getting the 2nd slot/questgiver
happens first (before LMA bonus questline is triggered). If you avoid that (story quest in still in HMA) and you went to the IndA map with only 1 slot available, then I do not know what would happen when the IndA bonus questline is triggered. Either the bonus quest will take over the single existing slot, or a 2nd slot may temporarily appear with the bonus questline. But as I do not know of anyone in the IndA map with their story quest still in HMA, this is not tested.
However, all this would be a moot point, because if you wanted to advance on the continent map
and also get the higher age units, then you
cannot stay in HMA, but need to progress tech-wise (up to Colonial age). You do not get units just by conquering a province, but by completing
the relevant story quest. And to complete the relevant story quest you need to have advanced in age (as previous quests ask for things that depend on you having researched further).
I think In CA map you can get 2 musketeers while being in LMA. But to get the rest of CA units given as rewards you need to be in CA (because of things like ‘
Build 2 CA decorations’).
In IndA map you can get the IndA units if you are still in CA (but there are things like
‘Build a military building from the Industrial Age or research a military technology’, which may also turn out to be problematic).
You can go to the wikia site and see all the story quests (what they ask and what is the reward). This way you can see in advance what is and what is not possible.