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Recruit Prisoners for Cats

This is a Recruit Prisoners mod, based off Nanogiraffe/laVal's mod, where you can capture NPCs, then talk to them, and pay to recruit them. Credit them for the original, and thank you.

This is a stand-alone overhaul of the original RP.
Do not use both mods.

--Capture NPC's, put them in a cage and speak to them to try to recruit them.--

With the original mod it was too easy to acquire an army of really strong npcs (which took the challenge and difficulty away), so I added costs to recruit them.
A single Ninja or high level can really change your game, so it shouldn't be easy to recruit them. Plus, you need something to spend all those Cats on and a reason to keep making cats ;)


I also put some ( *** ) to help with right choices on some long ones.
*No more spreadsheet or googling or asking the right combo and getting frustrated*
I also Removed quite a bit of extraneous dialogue that many people found to be too much, but not all. - the ( *** ) will help.


The cost for some npcs can vary depending on your previous actions, like being an ally or enemy of a faction, or having killed someone important, or them being stronger or weaker than you.

(Keep in mind, by the time you recruit them their stats are likely higher than their base stats)

*Added recruiting for all "farmers". Any NPC that is a "Farmer" can be recruited for 10k (in cage). They have 50 Farming and 50 Labor, 25 Engineering, 20 Str. (Cost is higher than a farmer hire because of the convenience to get them, the extra stats, and it's more in line with the mod) -You can still recruit farmers the normal way in bars.
I also improved some base stats of many normal hires to ~5-10 from measly lvl 1 to be more worth their asking price.

Many updates have been made to this mod. Balancing and new dialogues and more npcs added to recruit from cages. Check the "Change Notes" to see some brief descriptions.

If you're wondering why a recruit cost seems a bit high (or low), it's either because of the stats you can't see, i.e. 'Combat' stats and 'Stealth' stats, etc. (Stealth stats are pretty OP) Or they got bad (or good) rolls on their stats.. There's a randomize factor to all stats, sometimes up to 20+ difference.



** This mod should work with Patches you use for the original RP.
*** I have just made a patch to work with REACTIVE WORLD mod. link below
Iron Will Faction - Patch - by [NinjaBeest]
New Weapons Dissemination - Patch - by Sayori Pelona



Any recruit mod that affects vanilla (non-creature) characters using the Prisoner cage to recruit. Other methods of recruiting shouldn't conflict.
Tame Beasties does Not conflict.

I believe it's necessary to get the stat changes I made, but not vital to use the mod.
I highly recommend it though, because I had to balance the "Ninja" types by giving them less stealth stats if they had super high stats, because this would be far too OP. I did give stealth to some ninjas that had none though.

https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1395

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JakPrymr6g
If you make a patch, link it below and I'll include the link in the mod page.

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Let me know if you see an issue, and I will try to fix it.