Permanent Neutral Enclaves. Worth keeping or kill?

[Accel Lex]

A few maps ago and this one too, there's certain enclaves that stay neutral without offering any missions to improve. Should I kill them off? One I had since beginning and still nothing. So I doubt they'll change.

[Protectron]

If you want more Allied enclaves for any reason, I guess killing them off is worth it.

[Redarmy]

Pay them a visit,take out a jar of zombait,utter the words "il just leave this here", hide somewhere,let the zeds kill em.

Take their gear,welcome new enclave,sell said gear to new enclave.

[Accel Lex]

Thanks for the response. In the past I've been going with that approach, but wasn't sure if I was missing out in an obvious benefit.
I never threatened Enclave, and always used either fire or zombait. On occasion I'd recruit a member to get them killed off, or as bait.

[Akatosh]

As the bonus of allied enclaves are practicals and sometimes even powerfull, I'll go for some "population management"

The only benefit I could see, is that thoses Enclaves are taking the slots of other enclaves that can possibibly be hostile. So, destroying thoses enclave could lead to the arrival of hostiles NPC, depending of your difficulty level, it can be painfull.

[Protectron]

There is a benefit from having neutral or hostile enclaves on the map, though. Two different missions use them as targets.

1. The "murderer" Mysterious Broadcast mission where a X3 repeating crossbow-wielding maniac managed to one-shot all three of them. You can recruit if you are 3 or perhaps 4 survivors, or take your chance on demanding them dropping the weapon and leave (comply or turn hostile). You also get the loot of the dead enclave in addition in either case.

2. The "infestation/Feral killed the hostiles/neutrals" Mysterious Broadcast mission, where you just have to take out the infestation/Feral and then you get their loot.

[Vovin]

Sometimes they just leave on their own. I noticed this recently, although it could be due to something like the crossbow maniac mission initiating but I never bothered to check in on them.

I actually had the Echo trader spawn three times on this map, so X3 crossbow was plentiful. No mysterious trader, though a few Rare Skill traders.