What is the best recruiting methods

[Arayala]

Best way to recruit people? And what towns have a lot of people to recruit.

[My What]

Finding them in bars, or freeing slaves which *may* join you
There are a few unique npcs that are free, one of which is way up north in the Scorchlander fishing village by World's End, and in one of the more northern ruins in the Deadlands I believe they're called, the big gray ruin swamp north of the Fog
To name the free ones I know of
Otherwise find ore nodes near towns, mine and sell the ore, takes some time but atleast you'll have a relatively safe income

[titanopteryx]

There's a free one in the Hub, and a free one in Shark. In Mongral there's a chance a bar will have Crumblejon who has nice stats and he's free. By the way, you need to pick the right conversation options for these guys to join you. If you medic an incapped npc, there's a chance when he wakes up that he will join you after a conversation. You can bail out npcs from jail, and as long as you didn't put them there yourself they can join you. A good place for that is Stack since hungry bandits wander into town and get arrested periodically. You can buy animal characters from holy farm. Back to Mongral, there's only a chance the hirable npcs will be there in each game, but they can be really strong.

[Slinger]

Beat up Hungry Bandits/Dust Bandits and bring them into Holy Nation jails while unconscious. Then post their bail of 0 cats, wait for them to recover. You have free squadmates. It took me 7 playthroughs to think to try that out and it filled my last 10 man squad.

[Arayala]

Originally posted by Verrater:

Beat up Hungry Bandits/Dust Bandits and bring them into Holy Nation jails while unconscious. Then post their bail of 0 cats, wait for them to recover. You have free squadmates. It took me 7 playthroughs to think to try that out and it filled my last 10 man squad.

Well the problem is jails are bugged cant put em in

[Shidan]

Originally posted by Verrater:

Beat up Hungry Bandits/Dust Bandits and bring them into Holy Nation jails while unconscious. Then post their bail of 0 cats, wait for them to recover. You have free squadmates. It took me 7 playthroughs to think to try that out and it filled my last 10 man squad.

That was also fixed according to patch notes. So it shouldn't work anymore anyway.

[Slinger]

Originally posted by Shidan:

Originally posted by Verrater:

Beat up Hungry Bandits/Dust Bandits and bring them into Holy Nation jails while unconscious. Then post their bail of 0 cats, wait for them to recover. You have free squadmates. It took me 7 playthroughs to think to try that out and it filled my last 10 man squad.

That was also fixed according to patch notes. So it shouldn't work anymore anyway.

It still works, I'm running experimental. I can upload my save if needed. The last four people I recruited were a dust bandit and three hungry bandits. Took them to a plastic surgeon and renamed them.

I thought they removed the ability to recruit super strong characters you turn in. I'm also not experiencing a jail bug

[Shidan]

Originally posted by Verrater:

It still works, I'm running experimental. I can upload my save if needed. The last four people I recruited were a dust bandit and three hungry bandits. Took them to a plastic surgeon and renamed them.

I thought they removed the ability to recruit super strong characters you turn in. I'm also not experiencing a jail bug

It was supposed to remove super strong characters and ones who hate you. So I guess bandits don't hate you. ;)

[Slinger]

Originally posted by Shidan:

Originally posted by Verrater:

It still works, I'm running experimental. I can upload my save if needed. The last four people I recruited were a dust bandit and three hungry bandits. Took them to a plastic surgeon and renamed them.

I thought they removed the ability to recruit super strong characters you turn in. I'm also not experiencing a jail bug

It was supposed to remove super strong characters and ones who hate you. So I guess bandits don't hate you. ;)

Some of them did decide to run as soon as I posted there bail with the same, "Why would we be grateful, you put us in here message," that slaves use if you sell them and immediately purchase them back. I would have to playtest this, but I think that the ones who were conscious when I put them in the cell were the ones who decided to run away. The unconscious ones I had to scoop up off of the jail room floor and put into beds that I built in a small shack nearby until they had recovered.

[titanopteryx]

Or you can do what I did and make yourself a mod that changes the ownership of Blister Hill, Stack, and Bad Teeth to the Mongral faction and get a lot of strong recruits.

[NotFox]

If you can make it through the fog to mongrel with at least 20,000 cats you can usually get recruits that are usually over 15 attack and defence. My first time in Mongrel, I got two Scorchlanders, two Hive drone soldiers, and two Greenlanders, and most were in the 20 range in attack and defence(A few had almost level 30 in each). Several of them were unique as well. The Greenlander ones were Crumblejon, and Infinite WingWang, And the Scorchlanders were Fish and Stork. Overall, If you've got the money, and think you can make it to Mongrel and back without being eaten alive, It's a good place to find decently skilled recruits. (Unless I just managed to get a jackpot Mongrel in my game.) ;)

[yippeekiay]

Got quite a few freebies, crumblejohn, hamut, burn, ray and others I can't remember.
Biggest freebies I got was when I decided to go and teach the slavers a lesson. Killed whole town and freed the slaves I found, when I eventually left the town 6 slaves joined me. Didn't want them but decided to send them back to my main town for a life of labour making me lots of goodies ;)

[Shidan]

Originally posted by yippeekiay:

Got quite a few freebies, crumblejohn, hamut, burn, ray and others I can't remember.

Ray is not free btw. You must buy his freedom.

But your point still stands, there are plenty of free recruits in the world. In fact, there are infinite if you know where to look. ;)

[yippeekiay]

Yup got him a while back. I normally leave freebies with the names they have so I either forgot or I did get him free as I'm good like that lol ;p

[Red Bat]

I command my Skeleton assistant to look for teenagers with attitude. Never fails.