Only by manually setting them. The add follower group shortcuts is automatically ordered by girl ID. Smallest number first (Av01 - Lovisa) and biggest number last (Av220 - whoever is the final AvRan NPC you added to your house, could be Arizona, could be your child, could be any random).
You cannot. The MC is always positioned first.
Yes. This version of the Tier 4 alpha does not yet have the full quest.
Yeah not possible to fix the order they take their turn in combat currently. If you don't have whoever your A team is properly trained up for captures yet you could temporarily use Cassius, Truls, Aaron, and Ayden (all Herculean) so everyone does good melee damage regardless of order. Einar is another good choice but he's not available immediately. Once you have enough training time in you can train up anyone you want to be both a brawler and a warrior so at that point anyone should be ok at captures (albeit not as good if they're not also Herculean for the higher strength cap).
Yeah that works in the early game and they are pretty tanky, but if I remember right you lose influence for every fight and early on I'm trying to build influence so I just wait til I have 6k influence before I capture any of those so I can just immediately sell them. The space hulk group in particular is a really nice early game cash influx from that, although depending on what you're focusing on in the early game those fights can be a bit tough the first couple of weeks.
Btw, I dont know if this is entirely true.
I always see people recommend getting the most expensive mercenaries from the beginning and quite honestly I dont know how you guys afford it. I always start my run getting prowler to capture slaves, Laika cause she starts in the fronline despite having low melee skills, Rifle Savant and Bud (using Kyle's riffle). I rush to get Kate so she makes me money in the Arena and rush to get Truls to make him join my team once his affection goes up. Meanwhile I clear the yard, train stamina, meditate, and make the house self sustaining food wise. Meanwhile I keep slaves to work in the Academy, a gardener and workaholics. Oh, also I get Talika as an educator. While I'm doing all this early game stuff I just keep killing low tier punks like the one at the Docks or Redhaven and enslaving and selling them.
Grimdark A Dying World starts with very low control and they use expensive mercs to keep hunting people. It's a race of earning more from the services of the mercs than what they cost. Ayden costs what, $400 something per day? If you can use him to catch 10 people, you pay his upkeep through the sell price of one, then still have plenty of money to keep. He has WEGA armor and at this stage, especially in advanced tactics fights, he could be the primary target. Your most armored guy is taking hits for the team. He doubles as nurse too. Not necessarily the start I would choose, but it is pretty doable.
Yeah plenty of people prefer to stick with low salaries until they can passively cover the cost of more expensive mercs. I've tried it that way as well but I just find I progress faster by rounding up the top tiers immediately so I can maximize the amount of money I get from selling slaves. From a passive income standpoint I'm usually in the red for at least the first 3 months but slave and workshop sales are enough to make up the difference.
Right, Ayden is expensive up front but he comes with Wega armor which makes him by far the best tank you can get in the early game. I do play Grimdark/Dying World so he rarely gets much use out of his coil gun unless I randomly find some coil gun ammo from bosses I fight. He uses a whip pretty much full time in my games. Similar deal with Connor, he brings his own Duraplate with him so he's a bargain. Felix and Samuel only come with Combat armor so I do eventually have to spring for some armor for them.
For MC it's mostlly the dojo, NPCs have passive options. There are some efficient ways to gain certain stats though.
You can raise STR, DEX, Melee Combat, Ranged Combat, and Stamina in the Dojo. Caps should be 130/130/130/130/120, unless you are a Mountain Man, in which case the Dojo caps should be 200/70/130/130/150 I think. Something like that, unless there are exploits that allow you to go over the cap again. To get to 150 on Melee or Ranged Combat, you need crit on combat to gain +1 point. Crit from Deadly Strike or Crackshot does not count, so you only have around 5% chance of getting that +1 per attack you do. Training gets harder the closer you are to the caps so everything starts to matter. Fully upgraded Dojo, hire trainer, push it, the statue Aria gives you as reward during the mini interactions after her second and major questline conclusion, good start (from morning blowjobs), sexual craving is Satisfied or lower (Sexually-depleted), as well as certain Traits you pick that can give advantages or disadvantages.
This is for when you send children off in the Actions menu. They will be gone forever, but depending on their stats, traits, and fame/prestige, they can take up various jobs to give you a passive income and influence loss or gain.
First you need to buy the right book from the bookstore, and then talk to the owner about it.
you can also choose positions having 80 melee skill (Idk why Laika can do it from the start but I aint complaining
Ty for your detailed response, although I think I'm more comfortable chilling in early improving the house and training a little everyday I think. I've also tried starting with high manipulation to improve the shrine and just start spamming corruption to get a horde of whores to get me money pretty early.
that makes sense
