[SUGGESTION] Buy feast / hire wenches at taverns to improve morale

[allthesedamnnamesaretaken]

I vaguely remember this feature in native or a mod from a long time ago, but that was back when morale was basically useless. However, with a large renown-based party size, speed and desertion issues, I find myself looking at my morale report all the time. With the large enemy parties and ciity defenders to contend with in BOW, having a large party is a must, and morale management is difficult.

Anyways, I did a search and found nothing, so what I'm proposing is this: two options when talking to a tavern keeper (instead of the "I'd better go now"):

1) buy a feast for your party: -2 denars per person, 4 hours pass, +10 morale for 24 hours
2) hire wenches (or gigolos for your women-at-arms?) for your party: -20 denars per person, 7 hours pass, +25 morale for 24 hours, 10% chance that your men get "wounded"  .

Each of these should be available only once every 24 hours. If you stay overnight you still have to pay for accommodations, if applicable.

 

[Tiberius]

lol, wounded

 

[Erwin]

Good idea. On the same basis, having female prisoners should also give a morale boost every time you camp.

 

[allthesedamnnamesaretaken]

Good idea. On the same basis, having female prisoners should also give a morale boost every time you camp.

I don't think female prisoners are abundant enough to implement, and certainly not abundant enough for 100+ parties. I mean, who invests in prisoner management anyways?

You're also assuming that all commanders condone rape, or doesn't keep all the female prisoners to himself. 

Also: female commanders, and soldiers - should then be affected by male prisoners? I think this feature should just be left out due to scarcity of female prisoners, and complexity of male/female soldiers, not even taking into account gay soldiers. 

However, female soldiers are quite common in the player party, so I think the 2nd tavern option should be changed from "wenches" to "pleasurable company".

 

[Erwin]

Somehow I don't think women would be that interested in raping male prisoners, but then I'm not a girl, so perhaps I'm wrong. Any ladies here willing to share their insight into the matter?
Anyway, condoning rape... eh, I was under the impression it was fairly normal for the period (and no, I don't mean that in the "in Japan, rape is like saying hello" way). I suppose you could just make it an option in the camping menu, so that players don't feel forced either way (pun not intended).
As for the abundance issue, I don't think there's a shortage of women. Aren't the Awali mostly female? And you can just raid the nearest village for some fresh girls. There's always a bunch of them among the defenders.

 

[fisheye]

Historical or not, I'm personally strongly opposed to a mod with my name on the credits condoning or promoting sexual violence or exploitation of any kind.

 

[Erwin]

Dude, chill. Giving the player an option doesn't mean you condone it. I mean, I'm fairly sure you don't condone murder either, yet you don't seem to mind having your name on the credits of a mod for a game the point of which is killing people.

 

[allthesedamnnamesaretaken]

Historical or not, I'm personally strongly opposed to a mod with my name on the credits condoning or promoting sexual violence or exploitation of any kind.

Fair enough, although prostitution isn't necessarily exploitation (although most of it probably is). If you find it distasteful, though, how about replacing it with "hire entertainment for your party"? "Entertainment" can be whatever flavor you want it to be, from good family-friendly performers, musicians, dancers, etc, to less wholesome vices...

Somehow I don't think women would be that interested in raping male prisoners, but then I'm not a girl, so perhaps I'm wrong. Any ladies here willing to share their insight into the matter?
Anyway, condoning rape... eh, I was under the impression it was fairly normal for the period (and no, I don't mean that in the "in Japan, rape is like saying hello" way). I suppose you could just make it an option in the camping menu, so that players don't feel forced either way (pun not intended).
As for the abundance issue, I don't think there's a shortage of women. Aren't the Awali mostly female? And you can just raid the nearest village for some fresh girls. There's always a bunch of them among the defenders.

Unfortunately, most modern societies are ok with exposure gratuitous violence, even at a young age, but sex is a big no-no.

As for female prisoners...Can Awalis can be taken prisoner? I've never seen Awali prisoners before, but it might be because I avoid them (they are difficult and don't' have good loot) and the fact that they don't get into fights with anyone else. You can raid villages but you never capture anyone you knock out. You might get the odd refugee troop rescued from defeated dark knight parties, and that's about it.

 

[Erwin]

Unfortunately, most modern societies are ok with exposure gratuitous violence, even at a young age, but sex is a big no-no.

What sex? It's not like we're talking explicit, graphical content here. And M&B doesn't really strike me as a kids' game anyway. And I'm fairly sure I could find some references that early exposure to sex is in fact good for you.

As for female prisoners...Can Awalis can be taken prisoner? I've never seen Awali prisoners before, but it might be because I avoid them (they are difficult and don't' have good loot) and the fact that they don't get into fights with anyone else. You can raid villages but you never capture anyone you knock out. You might get the odd refugee troop rescued from defeated dark knight parties, and that's about it.

You can't capture from villages? Darn, I could've sworn... But villagers travelling the map do have girls with them, right?
As for the Awali, I really don't know. I avoid them too, and besides, I haven't taken a prisoner ever since .808 (the good old days of the 'capture some knights' quest that paid nearly a grand apiece; now that we have fiefs, money is a non-issue for me).

 

[NCrawler]

Historical or not, I'm personally strongly opposed to a mod with my name on the credits condoning or promoting sexual violence or exploitation of any kind.

Well, you don't have to worry fisheye...  #1, I don't like the idea and #2, I'm not going to code it...


NC

 

[Erwin]

Psh, you're all a bunch of pussies. Killing people by the dozens in realistic 3D graphics is perfectly okay but a couple sentences describing a rape is unacceptable? Hypocrites.

 

[allthesedamnnamesaretaken]

Well, it's simple enough to code for myself (except for the wounding). If there is sufficient iinterest, I'll code it when I start a new game and release a minimod

 

[NCrawler]

Psh, you're all a bunch of pussies. Killing people by the dozens in realistic 3D graphics is perfectly okay but a couple sentences describing a rape is unacceptable? Hypocrites.

You talk a lot of ****.  If you think that something like this should be added, then by all means, go for it.  I, however, am not going to waste my time coding some worthless bull**** into the game so that you can jack off while fantasizing about raping your prisoners.


NC

 

[HardCode]

Well, it's simple enough to code for myself (except for the wounding). If there is sufficient iinterest, I'll code it when I start a new game and release a minimod

I think fisheye made it pretty clear that he doesn't want rape/entertainment associated with his work, so you shouldn't be releasing any minimod with Band of Warriors code and rape/entertainment in it. If you want to start your own mod, with no BoW code, then that is your perogative.

 

[allthesedamnnamesaretaken]

I'll probably release a source as a general minimod that can be used for any mod. There's nothing specifically that needs to be tied to BOW anyways. Just need to add a few dialog options, a couple of variables and triggers to reset them every day.

 

[Erwin]

Psh, you're all a bunch of pussies. Killing people by the dozens in realistic 3D graphics is perfectly okay but a couple sentences describing a rape is unacceptable? Hypocrites.

You talk a lot of ****.  If you think that something like this should be added, then by all means, go for it.  I, however, am not going to waste my time coding some worthless bull**** into the game so that you can jack off while fantasizing about raping your prisoners.

Charming. And you're absolutely right, I totally want this feature because the internet is known for its lack of porn, so I have to scrape up fapping material however I can.

 

[Archonsod]

The answer is evidently no.

Locking for flame retardation, or perhaps flaming retards. One of the two ...