Thank you. Didn't have to kill him and he worked when i gave him the gem.

Greedy fucker hustled you for 4 gems at the price of one. You should kill him out of spite IMO.

Since this is working fine for some but not for others, I think I have an idea what's happening. What it sounded like to me was what happens when a grid gets assigned multiple times. I noticed one of Harkor's posts about faction - he's spamming hand-ins for faction. The hand-in is what assigns the grid. So harkor is the one breaking the npc.

Yeah this was borked when I just tried to do it as well. Handed him the gem and sat and waited for him to move for about five minutes, then tried telling him he could buy booze, and he gave his response but still sat completely still. Whoever has been screwing this up I hope you're happy.

Just petition for someone to /kill him if you're about to hand in a gem, until this gets updated. He has a very short respawn.

So does that mean sit in front of the NPC and make a forums petition, and wait and pray for someone to do something? I'm guessing with the dearth of nonsense Epics is going to create, I could be waiting for a while.

No. In game. You'll know ahead of time if you're about to do that hand-in. If Amelinda is on and has time I'm sure she'll help.

i'd much rather come kill an npc than mediate a camp dispute.

I'm still sitting here whenever you can get around to it, I've made a /petition already.