Healing Raiders

[ahowe42]

When a raider is downed, if I capture him, heal him, then send him on his way, the animosity between me and that raiders faction is supposed to decrease.  However, I've noticed that this is not consistently happening.  In my current game, I've had three sequential raids from the same faction.  In all 3, I did exactly this - captured a downed raider, then healed & released.  And yet, I did not get the nice little message about relations improving since he left the map healthy.  Why is this occurring?

Also, I've noticed in previous colonies, that if I capture a downed raider, and set his prisoner interaction to "Release", the idiots will release him immediately.  Since my goal in capturing is typically to heal him & improve inter-factional relations, I have to set the interaction to "Recruit" so he stays around long enough to heal.  Then, I set to release.  Is this possibly causing the problem I've mentioned?

[Dingo]

A) I'm not sure about this, but I THINK there are faction types you just can't befriend. Pirates, for example. So capturing their raiders just to heal them is less useful than capturing & releasing raiders from towns or tribes.

B) You can set prisoner interaction to "no interaction" or "friendly chat" and set medicine to some degree of doctor care to make sure they are healed before you change the interaction to "release".

[O Negative]

Yeah, there's a game mechanic that allows you to set certain factions as unappreciative. By default, pirate factions are not appreciative. So, basically, no matter how much good you do, you'll never be friends. They hate you forever, and for no good reason other than the fact that they're jerks lol.

This is easily modded, if you want a different experience.

[ahowe42]

Yeah, there's a game mechanic that allows you to set certain factions as unappreciative. By default, pirate factions are not appreciative. So, basically, no matter how much good you do, you'll never be friends. They hate you forever, and for no good reason other than the fact that they're jerks lol.

This is easily modded, if you want a different experience.

Hahaha.  Those aholes :-).  Thanks, that's probably it.

[ahowe42]

A) I'm not sure about this, but I THINK there are faction types you just can't befriend. Pirates, for example. So capturing their raiders just to heal them is less useful than capturing & releasing raiders from towns or tribes.

B) You can set prisoner interaction to "no interaction" or "friendly chat" and set medicine to some degree of doctor care to make sure they are healed before you change the interaction to "release".

Thanks Dingo.  I guess you're right on A), and your suggestion for B) is good.

[Wex]

You should do this, since they are not going to be friendly.
Amputate any non vital infected part, use a peg leg if it's a leg.
Put some peg leg anyway, they are bound to return.
Then release them.

[O Negative]

You should do this, since they are not going to be friendly.
Amputate any non vital infected part, use a peg leg if it's a leg.
Put some peg leg anyway, they are bound to return.
Then release them.

Yes, this is something I enjoy doing as well

[Alenerel]

You should do this, since they are not going to be friendly.
Amputate any non vital infected part, use a peg leg if it's a leg.
Put some peg leg anyway, they are bound to return.
Then release them.

Bound to return? Are the raiders always the same? What if you kill one, a new one will be generated then? A tribe/colony/whatever is composed of all the the guys in the raid that assaults you?

[Wex]

I don't really know.
The longest colony I had was a 18 years old one.
Pirates I released, and pirates that made out of the map, returned regullarly.
Also, the 50 people attacks were probably helping this.

[Commander Blackwatch]

I rather Killed them or burn them than let them one of them live but is useful if you recruit them than releasing them and it depends for you if you want to release them or not. But will not Improving your relation for them and also they deserve to die than let them live.

[Lizardo]

I like the idea of harvesting organs from them and sending them back, a sick mind but a good idea.

Or kibble. That way your pigs don't get sick on the rotting corpses.

Why build a crematorium when you have pigs to feed?

[Alenerel]

I like the idea of harvesting organs from them and sending them back, a sick mind but a good idea.

Or kibble. That way your pigs don't get sick on the rotting corpses.

Why build a crematorium when you have pigs to feed?

I like the idea too but the problem is that the pawns get a huge debuff if you get organs, I think its -9 for each organ and this STACKS. Then -6 for letting him die. And then you have to chop the body to make kibble, but butchering a human body also gives a -6 debuff to everyone.

The idea of installing peg legs to them however is pretty nice. It wont cause debuffs to mood, it will give you good exp for your doctor and next time the raider comes it will be easier to deal with him.

[Lizardo]

Oh why decry a lovely aesthetic just on account of a few debuffs?!

[Alenerel]

Oh why decry a lovely aesthetic just on account of a few debuffs?!

Harvesting organs 9x3=27
Death = 6
Butchering one corpse = 6

Total = -39 mood for everyone for doing it to 1 guy AND STACKS. I like the feature but its just not a "few" lol