Emilia: To Join or not to join?

[Insertclevername]

So, Emilia just came to my door. I'm not doing TOO bad on food, but I'm not at the point where I can just let anyone in. I've looked on the wiki and it seems like nobody knows for sure what she does. Does anyone have any information on whether or not I should let her join?

[toomanynights]

She is considered to be someone between Katia and Zlata. Though, I didn't feel that ability really working; but playing as Emilia I managed to execute the whole crew of bandits in 'Bandits' scenario of Saint Mary's Church without Alt+F4'ing, for me - that tells a thing.
She doesn't get sad very easy, so if anybody gets Depressed - she's there to calm them down.

So, my vote is for "join".

[Kapow]

lol she was the one messed up my 10th game ( I ended on day 37...). She came to our house being sick. So I had to take care of her all the time. It got to the point I had two other persons I had to take care of also due to one got shot gathering supply and another one also got sick. At the same time I got caught by the cold winter. After like 15 days of taking care of her, she got temporally illness and broken heart. She left suddenly one night with our supplies. Her profession was a lawyer & at first I was wondering what she would be good at for our survival situation. But I guess I found out the heard way. Of all 10 games I never refused any one who wished to join to live with us & it was all good but this one. All I have to say is this game is so unpredictable :P

[Stuurminator]

I've completed the Anton & Cveta scenario multiple times, but I have never seen Emilia be anything but aggressively useless in every game I've played.

From what I've heard, she has good sneak attacks, and she's so blatantly selfish that it's almost impossible to bum her out by robbing or killing civilians. I tend towards extremely goody-two-shoed play, so she's not that useful to me, but if you tend towards more ruthless play than I suppose she'd be good to have around.

[RainingMetal]

She's probably the third worst character in the game (ahead of Anton & Cveta of course), but that's not abysmal. Emilia's a poor guard like those two and Katia, but if you need a backup person for scavenging and the like she fares decently. If you need to commit a crime such as robbery she'll be less fazed by it. She can also be used to carry out favors for neighbors.

It's tolerable to start out with her and let her live (unlike Cveta, I always make that useless load of fat die off as soon as I can), but if she arrives at your house you can restart and play the random numbers God to your liking.

Say what you want about Emilia, at least she doesn't have a mere 8 slots!

[Insertclevername]

I think I'm good when it comes to scavenging. I got the Arica, Roman, and Bruno start, XD.
Only thing that would be better is Marko

[noob ferguson]

4 survivors are at times more trouble than they're worth. For the extra base defense on odd days of aggressive raiders, you're shelling out more food and potential sick people.

Take her in only if you're confident that your production has reached stability, and you're feeling charitable, because you're certainly not doing yourself any favors.

[Mringasa]

I honestly love having 4+ survivors. I'll use the odd ones (Emilia, Anton, Cveta etc) to cook and create things during the first part of the day while my scavenger and guards are sleeping it off. They aren't the most productive, but they work well as extras and people to send out to assist your neighbors.

Once you get past day 10-12, you have enough production to cover just about any instance, and having that extra survivor to cover for someone who gets sick/injured is nice. They might not have much carry capacity, and are about useless for most instances, killing off people just makes for extra depression and isn't worthwhile imo. I've brought a group of 5 back from starving before with 1 day's scavenging, so it really isn't too difficult as long as you plan ahead for the day's/night's activities.

[WaywardPython]

Take her in for (a) cover for sick/wounded survivors; (b) sending off on night-time errors (eg boarding up windows) so you don't have to waste a more useful survivor.

This assumes you have reached, or have a path to stability; if not, turn her away. She's a lawyer; she'll understand. ;)