Unwavering Loyalty

[Zeebob]

I like the lottery of picking through defeated enemies and hoping to get some good colonists out of it, and I can see how UL could screw that up a bit, but I think it works for what it is. I just think that you should still be able to convert a UL captive through more difficult and expensive means.

Like base game could have a hefty price in silver to essentially bribe the pawn, while ideligion could have cultist brainwashing that takes days. Biotech already deals with brain rippers, so maybe some kind of mind scan that removes the UL status but also damages the pawn in some way?

[Astasia]

Originally posted by azxcvbnm321:

I think the developers said they added unwavering loyalty as a way to increase the difficulty of raids by creating high ability pawns without the player being able to benefit from that and snowball from capturing them. It also makes slavery more viable, otherwise there is very little reason to use slavery.

Unwavering loyal pawns are spawned separately from regular ones, so if you turn the option off, you will not get those pawns anyway, just more regular pawns will spawn instead.

It doesn't have any effect on difficulty. Unwaveringly Loyal pawns don't have any special spawning mechanics and aren't better than normal pawns on average, and turning the option on does not cause extra enemies to spawn. The mechanic just takes random pawns from a normal raid spawn and makes them unwavering and less likely to die when downed.

The intent was purely to increase the "prisoner economy" without increasing recruitment rate, making the various other actions you can do with prisoners more relevant. The developers specifically said it was not intended to make the game more difficult, you don't get extra enemies, they aren't harder to deal with, and you aren't supposed to get fewer normal recruits (though it does actually reduce normal recruits slightly). I believe some of this is even stated in game on the option tooltip.