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[Jay]

All this silliness...
Soldiers (as previously defined; not peasants or guards) will join you if you have a skill higher than their highest.
If you're Legendary, and they're Grand Master, they'll join you.
That's all that's considered right now.
Nicknames/legends entries are all you get for killing important things.  No "reputation", no rewards.
Obviously, this is a placeholder system until later, but...

[Rysith]

[quote author=Mikko link=topic=30740.msg419022#msg419022
I'm sorry for this horrible offtopic question, but has anyone seen any drunks lately?
I saw the last one like 3 versions ago...
[/quote]

40d, I have an orc high priest/drunk on the civ screen at my fortress. Does that count?

[Cheshire Cat]

i allways thought drunks were a plentiful and easily findable resorce for the starting adventurer. i havent ever seen one, though ive only adventured in 40d in mostly small-medium worlds.

also, nobody every joins my adventurers till i go train legendary swimmer/thrower, then they fall over themselves to become my meat shields. i dont have to do anything to gain a rep, though this may help.  only people in really desperate situations join you if your gots no skills, like the last dwarf peasant in a depleted dwarf civ, or prisoners in goblin forts, or sometimes the unfortunate dwarves who survive a fortress abandon, which at the moment seems to leave a mostly empty and very messy place that has nothing all that much to fight, even if your on a chasm.

[LegoLord]

i allways thought drunks were a plentiful and easily findable resorce for the starting adventurer. i havent ever seen one, though ive only adventured in 40d in mostly small-medium worlds.

For versions 38c and earlier, that was true.  Now, with larger worlds, not so much.  They will appear though.

[Funk]

can personality traits have any link to if thay join you?
(other than immoderation)

[Jay]

can personality traits have any link to if thay join you?
(other than immoderation)

If I'm not mistaken, EXCITEMENT_SEEKING increases their chances of joining you.
That is...
[PERSONALITY:EXCITEMENT_SEEKING:0:60:100]

[Flaede]

a good source of cannon fodder these days are wandering "herds" of whatever nomadic people result from your particular mix of modded in civilizations. I recently hired the max amount of followers possible, using only random lizardman, since there was a huge migration of them next to my starting city. look on the world map for the - "doubling up" = (or sometimes even tripling), and head there. If you're not at war with whoever you find, then try to con hire everyone there into going with you. You'll usually only catch peasants and drunks, but that's as good or better than finding the drunk-tank.

[Vincent]

All this silliness...
Soldiers (as previously defined; not peasants or guards) will join you if you have a skill higher than their highest.
If you're Legendary, and they're Grand Master, they'll join you.
That's all that's considered right now.
Nicknames/legends entries are all you get for killing important things.  No "reputation", no rewards.
Obviously, this is a placeholder system until later, but...

Well, now I know why people won't join me. It's because I didn't put the CAN_LEARN tag on the beastie.

[Iapetus]

Were they soldiers, guards, or civilians Vincent?  The game is hardcoded so that only soldiers will join you, no matter what you do.

Are you sure?

I've managed to recruit some civilians before.  (Although they were some of my own custom orcs - maybe that made it possible).

[ElTacoLad]

Pretty sure peasants are able to join you, they are just unlikely to.

[Cheshire Cat]

Pretty sure peasants are able to join you, they are just unlikely to.

anyone can join you. but in my experience people like peasants, cheesemakers and children who dont have military skills will only do it if you find them somewhere they dont want to be, like in an abandoned fortress or out wandering the wilderness. children from goblin forts are fun to rescue, but you cant really stop them following you so recruiting them normally just leads to an eventual messy death.

[Funk]

some time even when you are Legendary x4
a axewolf (moded race) on the ground with one arm gone still says that i need his help if anything.
odd

[commondragon]

Some soldiers dont care about legendary status unless its THEIR skill.  I've had melee soldiers laugh at the "wimpy legendary bowman".

So I grabbed the mayor's sword and killed everyone with it.

and tossed all the soldier's bodies in the magma temple.

[Deathbane]

Hows its supposed to work is that killing megabeats and semi megabeasts increases how many people you ca have recruited at once. The skill thing is already mentioned.

[Luraien]

I have this problem too, but never when I come across semi-smashed up human towns. I ask around and most of the weapon-users are happy to leave the place. It's just annoying when 90% of the places you visit are fine and nobody want's to come along with you.