Recruiting

[DDog]

What is now the best way to find peeps to recruit??

Also, my warden takes forever to recruit prisoners now..

[Tynan]

Social skill really matters. Get a noble!

[DDog]

Thanks.. my warden has a social skill of 10..  but only a 5% chance to recruit...  doesn't happen successfully very often!

[Tynan]

Thanks.. my warden has a social skill of 10..  but only a 5% chance to recruit...  doesn't happen successfully very often!

Note that tribals are very hard to recruit.

[DDog]

That's what I don't understand...  who else is there to recruit beside tribals?  Where do I get peeps to recruit... in combat, they are tribals..  are there still travelers?  Haven't seen any.

[Tynan]

Outlanders and pirates are present every game.

[harley9699]

Time for me to start my nOOb questions: Is there a way to force my 'high Social' to interact with people wandering through? I've recruited no one yet. 2-4 will people wander through yet there's no interaction at all with them. Tried clicking on mine, clicking on them, etc. More of a chance thing only? Thanks.

[OmegaConstruct]

At the moment, I believe the only interaction you can have with visitors is to capture them as a prisoner, which their faction takes as a hostile action. You have to decide if you want to risk going to war with another faction over kidnapping a new recruit.

There are two ways to get new recruits without doing anything yourself, but they are infrequent (less so on Randy Random); a lone traveller will join your camp, or an emergency escape pod will land and you must rescue the injured passenger.

But when a group of visitors from a friendly raction stop by, you can only recruit one by kidnapping, but then they get mad and start shooting. But if you do want to do that, the social rating doesn't come in to play. Instead, you have to recruit one of your pawns and instruct them to capture someone and put them in jail. Then you assign your high social skills pawn to act as warden and set the prisoner interaction to recruit.