Leaders and killing them

[tylers2001]

What does killing the leader of an enemy colony do or capturing them does that do anything or is it pointless to show there names as Leader?

[akiceabear]

I think its be cool if killing a leader immediately added a -50 (for example) mood debuff to the raiding group, increasing the chance of them scattering in the wind. Also, if a live leader provided some sort of shooting/melee skill bonus to raiders with a set radius.

Also, it would be cool if the sane leader mechanic was adopted within our colonies also!

[Euzio]

I believe there should be 2 options for it.

1) The death of the leader breaks their morale and they start fleeing; or

2) The death drives them into a bloodlust and they start attacking in a rampage, no retreat.

The first option should be the one that occurs more often with the second being on rare occasions.

[SSS]

I don't like the idea of a leader death causing raiders to auto-flee, but making them take a large mood debuff like akice mentioned would be cool.

Leaders don't actually show up in raids afaik. Sometimes you'll see a pawn with a title like "chief", "mayor", or w/e, but their names never match up to the ones on the comms console and faction menu.

[tylers2001]

I noticed that and wouldn't it be awesome if you could send an assassin after another colony and it has a small chance of killing the leader which either makes them scared of your colony or makes them siege you.