If anything would need to be added here, maybe a way to split an unit from the party (as long as the party is bigger than one creature) so then they can be sent back with the prisoners, letting the rest of the force continue the assault.
Yes, I was thinking about that too. There is another idea to have a special creature with a giant bag on their back that can hold all captures, as a slightly unrealistic and humorous alternative to the annoying micro-managing of a group of prisoners. You can continue raiding or split that creature from the team. If it dies then the prisoners are let loose, so there is still a risk element.
I threw a few ideas regarding capturing people in general in some huge thread I’ve made in the past (which I don’t know whether you read or not)
I probably read it, but I’ll go take another look.
At least till the village is captured, the villagers are counted as enemy combatants and that means that many of potential prisoners would be slaughtered.
I’ve already modified AI to not chase civilians (they will be attacked though if they get adjacent). They are also visibly tagged so the player knows who can be captured.
Unless one would combine both methods and be able to capture villagers – turning them into static/tied/chained props who then can be collected once the village is secured in about one in-game day or they can free themselves.
That’s also a nice idea.
prisoners would be already quite essential with mana system as it is where even at the very end of the game player rarely has enough mana to invent and build everything and it’s where prisoners come in
I’m probably going to remove the tie between torturing and mana.
What if some of them, like werewolves, some types of undeads like vampires or ghosts, magical creatures or one created through mutant-making projects would require live humanoids to be subjected to some transformation?
That’s a very cool idea, I’ll think about it.
and as I’ve mentioned in the past, some creatures are objectively much more capable than others despite not particularly greater requirements in acquisition
Also great point.
It’s already quite bad one has to limit their digging tendencies due to questionable geology mechanics
I was thinking here about something that could substitute the geology mechanic, which I also don’t like. I should have mentioned that in the post.
There is another idea to have a special creature with a giant bag on their back that can hold all captures, as a slightly unrealistic and humorous alternative to the annoying micro-managing of a group of prisoners.
That would be a cool way how to use imps in a raid. 😀
Being able to brainwash some into joining the army would be nice too.
Yes! I always very much liked how you could torture enemies in the original Dungeon Keeper until they either died, or joined you.
It would be great to see this in KeeperRL, especially if you could capture some of the more special villains that way – elves for their vision, dwarves if they retained their ability to dig and thus help your imps, etc. Maybe you could even capture, imprison and tame dragons? That would require “prisoner” to be something like a status effect rather than a generic NPC, though.
