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It really is a shame when people's opinions change after imprisonment. The biggest issues stem from the entrapment and reliance of the victim on the abuser. Simply you're not going to bring issues up to your boss when he controls your income. Whether this be at a normal work place or a sex den under a pimp.

If there was a better system of shelters, better education on reaching such services. Things commercially might start to close.

Still if a person is imprisoned and changes their mind, they often can claim they were under heavy duress and unable to speak their minds fully. time and time again many cases were of incidents long ago.

A problem however is that consent can be very fickle. Like a girl sending some nerd to prison for tapping her shoulder and calling it rape since he was annoying, while the same girl lets some jock practically violate her because she's sexually attracted to him at the time.

False rape accusations are the biggest detriment to a woman's ability to defend herself against a rapist. It sets up a narrative of ambiguity that a rapist can use to defend himself Even more so if he can make the victim seem untrustworthy. On college campuses if it's established for example through text messages that the accused rapist is the victim's boyfriend/girlfriend then the case is tossed out. Despite most typical rape occurring from relatives/acquaintances.

Commercially if the woman benefits from the situation I am curious as to how many develop a Stockholm Syndrome of sorts. Some women are kidnapped from impoverished areas, but if they are able to make a living from prostitution, it makes me wonder if they often stop caring of the origins of their work. And how many cases where women kidnapped are forced to work without any such monetary incentive, how many of them just stay quiet.

Europe has been very welcoming before the crisis, now they've become hypocrites who stopped decrying pushing immigrants away.

Honestly there's a whole lot of issues going on, but it's better than Syria if you're under threat. Last I recall the govt liberated Aleppo not to mention if you can afford electricity and internet you've probably got it pretty good there.

Capturing a person IRL is not what most people should be doing to patients. I think most people would stay to heal up first then walk away.

But that being said pawns should only be leaving if they are clothed, armed, and have food provisions. Which maybe they could steal or ask for IMO.

Honestly eating without a table shouldn't really be a debuff you can carry and eat. IMO it should just be faster when eating on a table with a mood buff only.

3 might not be alot on it's own but it's alot when you consider the standard 0 is only like 10-20 away from turning into a murdering psychopath.

Are you 15%-30% more likely to murder someone because you drank your coffee while walking?

Honestly posting on an old idea is called necro'ing and making a new thread is shameful. It's a lose lose.

Still this idea has been discussed before.

And as always it's pretty popular if it can be balanced when implemented. Like locks, things are abusable.

The faction system as is, pawns/things happening only generates when you visit them. Otherwise they're not in existance yet.

Granted the steel might not be 100% compact. It might be loose steel grating or fencing who knows.

Thought you could already travel to a new world with the ships or was it just changed to a simple ending?

I just make an edited scenario that disables the event.

Slaves and human trafficking boils down to essentially two things. Men sent to labor, women sent for pleasure/atmosphere.

Being forced to work against your will, possibly with the threat of death and often death isn't really cared about as much as these people never make it anywhere in society, while a raped young woman can get her voice heard once she escapes as is more likely to occur than a man stuck in a sweatshop or some farm or ship.

Despite both being kidnappings and both inhumane situations. Another aspect is that economies are disrupted if men are rescued from such situations, businesses such as Nestle will have a harder time keeping global supply of chocolate.

I've met quite a handful of men and women stuck in life where they don't want to be. Heard a few other stories of people adapting or liking new life stuck in a gilded cage.

In the end the only way to really make a difference is through economical disruption. Fail to deincentivize cruelty and it'll just come back in some dark alley way or some wealthy bright golden party on wallstreet. 

In China it's rather common for wealthy men to import women from abroad such as thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, etc. They kidnap some poor village girl then treat her to the whole 9 yards. Multi-million dollar estate, servants, status, etc.

Other times you can get small towns that use adoptive services to funnel and train certain qualities such as intelligence, modernized looks, and mannerisms. etc. Then some wealthy person comes along for the purchase on the family's "investment" feeling trapped and ferried far off not too much to do, being raised in that scenario makes people not look for more options.

Rather recently found someone picked up, constantly abused, and subject to a strict life with little to no freedom (She was taken after an incident left her family dead), she was too scared to lift a hand against them. And also adopted their values. It didn't hurt that her abuser was incredibly wealthy and tied heavily with the police force. He was a good officer in public as well catching murderers, and rapists. While at home he was an abusive father to her, and the others.

There are countless stories of women finding a wonderful boyfriend only for him to end up being a trafficker convincing the girl to follow him out of the country, only to be entrapped into sex slavery. In an age of selfishness it becomes so easy to create lures for victims it leaves society very vulnerable. Sadly the best that can be done is simply to create decent communities and supporting one another.

Runaways, homeless, etc. When you leave vulnerable people in vulnerable situations where there's profit in being exploited it's a no brainer.

Personally I think government regulated business and labour would fix these nasty issues. At the cost of freedom and growth. At this point prisons are the govt's means of providing slave labour and can be rented out to companies for sweatshop priced goods made by Americans. Had most of these workers been allowed the option to work for a living I'm sure they wouldn't have turned to a life of crime then turned into slaves/indentured servants to the state/private prison industries.

In Germany there's govt regulated and taxed prostitution in hopes to avoid Albanian sex trafficking/entrapment. And as always a demand for such services.

This should be in General discussion, but really it's not too impt a mod will move it later I'm sure.

Honestly with the current system set up to allow multiple colonies send pawns out in different directions and then settle 2-3 colonies, kill and harvest everything on that map rinse and repeat.

You can't return to abandoned colonies (set in the options) but they offer plenty of advantages.

Then next time around make sure to stockpile more food for the next year.

Honestly I feel like direct recruitment by buying mercenaries would make more sense. A pawn that requires constant mood levels and or silver payments, but as pretty good stats geared for combat.

From the start people have always wanted caravans, multiple colonies, and pilotable space ships.

Some dynamic system where raids actually function as tiles on the world map would be interesting. Raiding and defending one another. Or rather events which simulate such.

I always wondered why Tynan removed this feature, it used to be in the game. Maybe balance because organs don't rot and they do have lots of value

Like this idea, I really want the world to have more ruins.