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[Vester]

Do they return to their hometowns, or stay with your retiree?

[Hungry]

Steps to find out:

1 get followers
2 remember at least one of their names
3 retire
4 check legends for said follower
5 worship dwarven god of "do it yourself"

[Vester]

There is no such god.

Also, I just did, but with a much easier solution - drafted a retired adventurer, attacked an orc fortress, left the retiree there. When I retired my current adventurer, I resumed with the other one - she started in the orc fort.

Thanks for being "helpful".

EDIT: By which I mean, if you're just going to try to be snarky, don't bother replying.

[Hungry]

Sorry?

Also it must be the redneck god of "do it yourself" under the sphere of duck tape....

Also, you should lock or delete this before it turns worse...

[Vester]

Or you could answer my question instead. Do you know if a retired adventurer will return to the place it was originally settled in? DF time certainly seems to pass in adventure mode, so would a follower of an adventurer retired in an elf retreat return to the human town it was orignally settled in? That'd be a good test of time passing in adventure mode.

[Hungry]

FINE, I'll stop being lazy and do a long term research project on retired follower post retire activities.

Vester, I hope your happy.

[Teach]

I too have wanted to know the specifics of what happens to your party when you retire. Only thing I have to contribute is that my party of elves decided to stay and massacre every man, woman, and child some human town after I got shot. I went back and had titles from all the killing.

[Hungry]

From short term results, retiree followers apearently dont become part of the resident civ, and remain a separate part from civ holding their original civs, and allegences to other civs, retired followers are not part of site civ, and act like their original civ much the way retired adventurer kills an enemy civ adventurer you are playing...
Retired followers act like they would if they were in the wild.
Retired followers attacks their own civs enemies, firendly to own civs allies, do not obey site's civ allegences.
I dont think they ever settle, even if you die, I dont even think they can return to being non followers anymore...

[kilakan]

They do actually re-settle it can just take quite a few years, I know this because I saved a hell of alot of children from the goblins, after a few years as another adventurer, I found a new town that the children I had saved built, they just don't go home because they consider being a follower as another part of a allegiance group, thus they only want to settle with the same people.

[TheBronzePickle]

So every time you retire with followers, you're essentially making a new country?

[Sensei]

No, people go home.

By the way, you know you can change your campanion's names, right? Or at least their profession or something. It'd be way easier to find TESTSUBJECT01 in legends than anything else.

[Vester]

They do actually re-settle it can just take quite a few years, I know this because I saved a hell of alot of children from the goblins, after a few years as another adventurer, I found a new town that the children I had saved built, they just don't go home because they consider being a follower as another part of a allegiance group, thus they only want to settle with the same people.

That's interesting. I need to try that out for myself.

Well, the followers of retirees do muck around, that's for sure. On occasion I lose one or another when retiring an adventurer, sometimes even in the town from which I recruited them.

[ArkDelgato]

The easiest way to check is to retire an adventurer, and recruit him with a new adventurer.

Then go die or something and look at the adventurer menu to see where guy1 settled.

[Rashilul]

• Get a bunch of followers
• Retire
• Run a tiny fortress with one super dwarf and no FPS limit
• For ten years
• Check legends
• ???
• Results

[skepticcs]

Here's a spin on this question I just thought up:

If you retire your adventurer in the capital (or any other town) of the civ you choose when building a future fortress, would you see this individual on the important characters list of your home civ in fortress mode? Could this person migrate to a future fortress? Could they become part of the king's entourage if he chooses to move the mountainhome to your fortress? Or will your adventurer always be a free agent, simply holding membership in that civ?

I'm going to test this out, but it could take a very long time to confirm this, so I ask here to see if any of you all have experience with this.