About Deserter Quest

[† Zacrriel †]

I've really enjoyed the quests' overhaul so far, as well as, evidently, the rest of the new content from Royalty. Although, I have something I wonder about which may or may not have been a topic already.

Regarding Deserter quests, is it any possible to accept the deserter's coming into your lands only to capture them and exchange them for royal favors? It doesn't feel logical not to be able to do such a treacherous yet efficient thing. Instead, we seem to instantly be made hostile towards the empire.

Unless I missed something, I think that instead of adding the deserter to your ranks on the spot, this one has to come to your home zone for you to speak with them to recruit them if the player really intends to so do; otherwise we'd still be able to take them into custody to trade with the loyalty party.

Do I make sense and, for my information, is it possible to make it so?

[1001001]

You don't recruit deserters. Accepting the quest adds them to the colony.

[Draco137955]

Is there by chance a mod that would allow something like this?

[MadArtillery]

The whole deserter thing isn't exactly fleshed out, just a one off quest early on. I imagine at one point there was more planned for it but as is it barely exists.

[Triple G]

It´s basically to turn hostile with the empire, even if You could reverse it rather easily - and as tribal start You would get a pawn with decent equipment.

From a min max perspective there´s no reason to turn hostile with the empire, as they sell the good melee weapons, and give You access to permits, like the shuttle, aerodrone strikes and the combat aids. Everything You could get with a hostile empire is worse. Also "selling" one dude for 3 honor is like not a good deal for accepting a quest. It might be worth if if You set slavery to honorable, which then also gives You a mood buff for selling them. One could rather do the their quests for like 12 honor, or sell a good bunch of people to get the next title.

Like it´s possible to accept the quest, to then turn friendly with the empire again, to then imprison the dude, and sell him for three honor next time a tribute collector arrives. But it doesn´t make much sense. One could rather pass out on the quest if one wants to stay friendly with the empire.

If You play naked brutality You could accept the quest to get the gear he wears.

[Radiosity]

Originally posted by Draco137955:

Is there by chance a mod that would allow something like this?

Check out Vanilla Expanded Empire and Deserters. They flesh out both factions with new mechanics, quests, and more.