Exchange prisoners for goodwill?

[Plasmatic]

So, right now when you get raided you can end up capturing some of them, but then you only have 3 options, recruit them, sell them, or kill them, 2 of which give you negative thoughts..

What about exchanging the prisoner back to the faction for one of four things?

1. Resources (food/metal/silver - whatever)
2. Breathing room - that specific faction will not raid you again for a longer period than normal.
3. Goodwill relation - could be useful if you want to get on neutral terms with the faction.

option 1 and 3 would also be useful if a random drop pod lands and it has a colonist of one of the neutral or friendly factions in it..

Obviously this can be polished but as a general idea I think it would be nice to have some benefits of capturing people that you don't intend to recruit.. especially when selling them to slave traders gives you negative thoughts..

[tommonius]

Hostages eh? Interesting suggestion I like it. I really want a way to increase rep with other factions and more versatility with them so you can like pay them off to receive some additional colonists even if it is a temporary basis for like a year.

Also ransoming captured colonists back to the other factions and perhaps holding off enemy raids or have them killed would be an amazing option. I hope this gets added into the game, if not then I guess it would not be to hard to mod in.

[Plasmatic]

Yea, I'd love option 1 and 3 for all the factions as I've had drop pods with colonists land so many times and I'm like "yay, new colonist!" then I see they are from a faction which is neutral of friendly.. and if I capture them I get some negative standing.. I mean.. best case it shouldn't affect my standing since you know.. I did save their life..

Now I just leave them out there to die so I keep my rep..

[BetaSpectre]

Hostages. Nice idea.

[LeoTiger1986]

You could even rescue and return ally incapacitated forces for goodwill.

[Plasmatic]

You could even rescue and return ally incapacitated forces for goodwill.

Even better!

I'm assuming the whole faction system will be fleshed out in time by Tynan, having a friendly raid the only thing that happens with friendly factions seems a bit thin..

Ideally, I think you should be able to trade with said factions for better prices, share technology and exchange prisoners with them.

(Disclaimer: only mentioned Tynan so he would see this post :-))