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10 (16.7%)

Often

11 (18.3%)

About half the time

8 (13.3%)

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25 (41.7%)

Never

4 (6.7%)

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2 (3.3%)

Total Members Voted: 60

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Except they'll use them with a companion's brain- you might want to watch out for those things. Companions with firebreath are a liability, fireballs might be dangerous too.

[Gameboon]

Hmm, I've had 3 guys for a while now, and they're stacked with stuff like 'human nail earrings', 'emu bone crowns' and 'human tooth rings'. Do the crowns give a better defence?

Also, one of them apparently picked up a shield, so he's a former lasher turned into a dual-shield-wielder.

[Trif]

I always like to have a few companions around. Team work is always fun, and I actually like fighting bigger ambushes.
Plus, you get to form emotional bonds to your meatshields. I still fondly remember the huge muscular blonde miner lady, who joined me after I returned bruised and beaten from my first night creature quest. Ah, the fun times we had... until she got killed by a goblin lord.
It's also hilarious to have companions who just crawl around and kick baddies to death.

Apparently, the kill stealing is a big issue, but it doesn't bother me. If the bad guy is dead, I don't care who did it.

So, yeah, companions are super great. A bit more control over them would be nice, though. If I retreat, I would prefer them to run, too; but Toady will figure something out sooner or later.

[Thecard]

if your old adventurers had any powers than can still use them.

Right.  I forgot about modded interactions.  Unless that's in the vanilla now, I haven't played the latest version much.

Hmm, I've had 3 guys for a while now, and they're stacked with stuff like 'human nail earrings', 'emu bone crowns' and 'human tooth rings'. Do the crowns give a better defence?

No, but the the vampirism does.
They do, my bad there.

[Loud Whispers]

Hmm, I've had 3 guys for a while now, and they're stacked with stuff like 'human nail earrings', 'emu bone crowns' and 'human tooth rings'. Do the crowns give a better defence?

Yes. Crowns block attacks, albeit rarely. Not really a problem when you wear the weight of the world's worth of crowns on your head

[Viking]

Just out of curiosity, do these guys sleep on their own when I sleep?

[Corai]

Just out of curiosity, do these guys sleep on their own when I sleep?

Yes.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

That's in fact another issue: if you don't wait for them to wake up, (regain consciousness), before traveling, you ditch them. Almost a feature, if people knew about it.

[Xangi]

Only when tackling megabeasts, and even then, only to distract said megabeast from me jamming a sword up its urethra.

[DrKillPatient]

Only in two conditions: First, the early game, for the usual reasons. Second, much later, if I choose to become a necromancer. I hire 20 of the most worthless peasants I can find and go after some powerful opponent. When we arrive, I hang back while they all die (as they're virtually guaranteed to), and the repeatedly reanimate them as my zombie slaves until the titan/large bandit camp/etc is dead. The same can be done against ambushes on my now-large party. This strategy also relieves me of the speed reduction that comes with carrying hundreds of bags of corpses around in my backpack.

Otherwise, they're fairly useless. Occasionally I'll recruit a bowman or two in mid-game to soften up bandits before they get to me, but that's about it.

[celem]

As the guy above me said... Though its only one condition for me since I rarely last more than a few hours in adventure mode, they all die sooner or later.

I always have as many companions with me as possible for my fame.  Just because i will live longer.  Kill stealing used to be an issue for me, but that was back before nightcreatures were introduced when I could actually do OK in Adv mode.

Nowadays the only jobs I can find send me after vampires, werebeasts and bandit camps.  All sucky  options for the new character tbh.  Yes I could go train on animals or something, I just never have the patience :p  I just outright fail at adventure mode ever since DF:2010