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Settlers Retreat

I like capturing settlers, I just don't like it when city-states capture settlers because they don't do anything with them. It would be cool if there were a mod that allows you to barter with a city state to get those captured settlers from them so they don't remain useless throughout the rest of the game.

It should continue to work with Rise & Fall. I haven't tested to confirm yet though.

I like this mod - helps prevent disasterous setbacks in the early game. Will it be updated for RaF?

I click on thumn down because I don't see the point. It would make more sence if they were made into slaves that could be kept as workers or sold (I know there is mods for this) or it would be really cool if they could be turned into slave-settlers who could found a slave-colony that built workers (the colony would offcourse always be secured so uprisings wouldn't appear). In time we could free the colony and they would establish a city state outside the borders or decide to built a normal city that was added to the empire. Just an idea. I'm not a modder, so can't do it myself

Sometimes I find an area that the AI simply couldn't ever be bothered to clear the barbarians from, but they keep sending settlers there to get captured. It's sad. Like they're handing me a whole free colonial nation. Or on island/fractal maps, seafaring city states will end up intercepting one or two settlers around the ren era, so there will just be a couple city states with settlers they'll never use for the rest of the game.

My only concern is that, typically, I end up capturing settlers because an AI opponent is trying to settle in "my" territory, but if I keep sending them back, then the AI will either continue cloging up the works with settlers (like they do with missionaries) or they'll end up with a bunch of useless settlers they can't use at the end game (like they do with great people.) Still, I think this is better than cheating the game by stealing settlers, and thus, cities.

Well, teleporting wasn't researched in my early stages. I'd prefer to change settler into worker instead, which would be more reasonable.