Valley 2 recruitment?

[doubtful]

Anyone else having recruitment attempts (in Valley 2) fail constantly?

I've tried 5-6 times this game (50% chance of success), and so far all I ever get is morale loss, injury or death, and failure.

Is there a way to raise success chance higher than 50%? I can see why sending multiple members to do it wouldn't necessarily sway a prospective recruit if one person can't, but is there any other way?

At this rate, it will be impossible to ever actually increase my population. :x

[LaughingThesaurus]

Not like I can help here but
People can die trying to recruit other survivors?

[Misery]

Anyone else having recruitment attempts (in Valley 2) fail constantly?

I've tried 5-6 times this game (50% chance of success), and so far all I ever get is morale loss, injury or death, and failure.

Is there a way to raise success chance higher than 50%? I can see why sending multiple members to do it wouldn't necessarily sway a prospective recruit if one person can't, but is there any other way?

At this rate, it will be impossible to ever actually increase my population. :x

Are you sending in people that have recruitment skill?

The only way I've seen a 50% chance appear is if I send in guys that have 0 skill to do it....

Or are you playing on a really high strategic difficulty?  Or perhaps are you just really far into the game?

[doubtful]

Nope, none of my survivors have succeeded in the first place, so I can't develop anyone with recruitment skill, unfortunately.

Hence the dilemma, lol.  And no, this is just default difficulty.

I take it I'm just getting lucky with the RNG?

And yes! Survivors can definitely die in recruiting.

*edit*

I think I'll just chalk it up to "luck" haha.  I also got "lucky" with my first batch of level-up towers in that the final rooms all had this cluster-of-doom of those little shell enemies with the boomerang-ing blue shots that are hard to break in a pit with waterfalls blocking everything to the point I could barely see.  But the last few I've done were fine, and one was even not that "pit" style room.  So I think my worry is mostly unfounded.

I'm hoping as the enemy count rises, I see fewer of whatever that enemy is though.  Freakin' hate em, lol.

[LaughingThesaurus]

I'm just imagining like, what happens is the survivor says "Hey, would you like to join us?" And, the other guy not only says no, but stabs your survivor in the heart and kicks him off a cliff. Maybe that guy's in league with Demonaica.

I've only got actual luck in my game so far though. It's always nice when you encounter two level up towers next to each other. My problem is that I don't have steady enough housing to actually keep any survivors, so I've just got the default dream team of 4.

[chemical_art]

I think that the recruting event is a bit broader then just talking to a survivor. It's the process of finding one to begin with.

For example a recruiter can not only die from the recruitee, but could die just getting there, or die during the actual search, or get a scratch and die from disease, or all sorts of other things.

[LaughingThesaurus]

But the only thing that prevents your death or failure is your skill at recruiting people, right?
I totally see where you're coming from, though.

[doubtful]

Iirc, the recruiting event definitely involves more than just "hey bro, come hang with us!"

I believe I got a message saying something like "he came at us with a knife!" when one of my survivors was wounded or killed trying to recruit one.  This could be chalked up to the player character's bad rep for working for Demoniaca or even just insanity due to the Wind/trauma.

Afaik, your recruiter's skill is the only factor that influences your chance to succeed.  Sending more people didn't seem to improve my chances (nor did the % to succeed update), and just raised the chance of more people being hurt.

At any rate, as for what triggered my initial post, I think I was just /really/ unlucky in my first game or two, because I've managed to succeed at recruiting a time or two now. But the failure rate for my admittedly tiny and statistically irrelevant sample size is still an anomaly in some sense. 

[Gemzo]

Your starting group of 4 has some random skills here and there. Starting with 0 skill in recruitment is where your bad luck started.

[doubtful]

I think my bad luck started with me being...me. 

But yeah, if sometimes they start with recruitment > 0, that was definitely bad luck for me. I might also, just possibly, be terrible at this game, too, though. =Db