How can you track down specific members of other factions?

[roenais]

Around an ingame season ago some slavers visited, but I didn't have the manpower to fight them (because there isn't really any ethical option for rescuing slaves yet, and I'm not giving slavers money!) Now I want to call them back over or somehow track down the same group of slavers and their slaves, but their faction has a lot of bases. I could try using comms to invite them over, but would it be the same group of slavers, or different members of the same faction?

[Dashthechinchilla]

The actual slavers might be the same. Caravans often spawn with many of the same members when you call them back. The 'inventory' would probably be random.

[jamaicancastle]

It would re-generate the caravan (merchants, guards, slaves, and all) when you request it. Whenever a pawn is generated, there's a chance that it will use one of the "world pawns" that it saved previously, and conversely a chance that will generate a new pawn. So you'd probably see mostly new people with some old ones mixed in.

The same thing happens when you attack a faction base. The pawns that spawn in will be a mix of world pawns and fresh ones.

Also, I think the game only saves certain pawns to world pawns, so chances are that the specific people you're after don't exist any more.

[Dashthechinchilla]

If you really want to see the same people again, you can select the name to appear more often in the options. They won't always be the same identical pawn though.

[Canute]

When it is the same name and same faction it is prolly the same pawn, ofcouse with different equipment.
But the body stay the same, when you install at your pirates some peg-legs and release them. They still have peg-legs when you come again with the next raid.

[Dashthechinchilla]

In A17 I had a problem with a bulk caravan pawn named Cole who was 80 with a bad back and dementia. He spawned with that caravan every time I called it for about 6 quadrums. So, they do get the same pawns often enough.

[Razbari]

Unless you have a specific grudge against the specific spawns that visited you previously, wouldn't it be enough to just slaughter slavers of the same faction?