Harder to Recruit Followers?

[Anunya]

Are there any mods that make recruiting basic followers a little harder- turn them into mercenaries, requires the PC to fuck them, or anything like that?

 

I have a lot of follower mods, and it'd be nice if it was a little bit of a speedbump to adding them to the party.

[belegost]

Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour, Devious Followers Continued?

[Anunya]

2 hours ago, belegost said:

Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour, Devious Followers Continued?

 

Hahahaha yes

 

This is for all the other followers who are not Devious (if I have more than one), but also because being down 500 gold to gain a follower seems reasonable to me.

 

In general, I wish there was something to make maintaining non-devious followers require a little bit of effort separate for the big full featured mods like SubLola and Devious Followers.

 

Nether's Follower Framework has a "pay your followers" feature, but it's 1) too low maintenance to really have an impact, and 2) paid after service, meaning it's way to easy to game.

 

I'd love a mod with some or all of these features:

• Regular followers get flagged as mercenaries.
• Every so often, regular followers ask for a payment and if you don't give it to them they leave.
• Alternately, every so often your PC has to fuck the follower to keep them happy.
• Each of these features toggleable by gender.

... or anything else that added a simple maintenance cost for followers that actually required interaction.

 

[belegost]

4 hours ago, Anunya said:

In general, I wish there was something to make maintaining non-devious followers require a little bit of effort separate for the big full featured mods like SubLola and Devious Followers.

NFF.

 

You can configure daily wage/cost for each follower.

[Anunya]

9 hours ago, belegost said:

NFF.

 

You can configure daily wage/cost for each follower.

 

Thanks for the suggestion

 

Last time I looked at it IIRC the money get deducted automatically with no interaction after the time has passed. It ended up being a little too clinical for me - I'm less interested in the money amount going down, and more interested in interacting with the follower trying to keep them happy.

 

Still, I'll go back and give it a look. I appreciate the suggestion.

 

 

[shrtjsrtj]

I think there's an option in iNeed that requires followers to buy food/drink, and they get grumpy and leave if you don't pay them enough to cover costs.

 

I was sure there was something like this but I can't find anything. Maybe another option is to make everyone a Devious Follower but tame the options down and use Lola for your main follower.

[belegost]

6 hours ago, shrtjsrtj said:

make everyone a Devious Follower but tame the options down and use Lola for your main follower.

I can't see this being in any way fun. I tried running Lola with DFC once. Never again. It becomes so intrusive after a while, that you literally can't do anything any more, especially when the needs of Lola owner and devious follower start clashing with each other. It gets even worse if they are both the same person. Feels like the follower has a split personality. And as soon as you stumble once with money, it all spirals out of control. My advice would be to use either one or the other.

Edited December 6, 2023 by belegost