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Five chickens

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Attracting mercenaries
« on: December 05, 2019, 07:05:43 pm »

I recently turned my large (60 tables) dining hall into a tavern with twenty assigned rooms, but haven’t attracted any mercenaries yet.  Is there anything else I can do?  (People do come to my fort all the time to study in my library.)
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Shonai_Dweller

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Re: Attracting mercenaries
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2019, 10:22:40 pm »

Death increases the mercenary rate.
How old is your world? If there's no mobile population it's harder to attract any kind of visitor.
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Five chickens

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Re: Attracting mercenaries
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2019, 06:35:24 pm »

I have tons of visitors, but no one is joining my fort as a mercenary.
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therahedwig

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Re: Attracting mercenaries
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2019, 06:55:43 pm »

My experience has been it varies wildly, one fort I have a super active tavern and never mercenaries in 10 years, the other I have a super active tavern and 5 mercenaries in 2 years. Former fort was in the middle of a warzone, latter fort was in a relatively peaceful area.
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Re: Attracting mercenaries
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2019, 08:57:35 pm »

I'm getting some now, although I'm getting a lot more entertainers.
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Shonai_Dweller

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Re: Attracting mercenaries
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2019, 10:50:07 pm »

I'm getting some now, although I'm getting a lot more entertainers.
I have that a lot, but find that mercs start turning up more often after a couple of sieges.
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