I thought I had read in the manual that you could ransom prisoners. ??? I've got three atm. Each time I progress toward returning them, I never see a ransom option - just a 'return prisoner' option. What's the word on prisoners?
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Perhaps the AI does what I usually do - send illoyal or incompetent people to deliver declarations of war, assassinate etc, and it doesn't really want them back. 
So, if the AI is to offer anything, I will not know it until I send the prisoner back?
Sometimes they offer more often than others. I've had the AI offer ransom for the same guy about three or four times, and then keep sending him back on missions. A tidy little earner that was .
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dojoboy said:
No the AI will send a messenger to your nation saying we give 25 Gold for this prisoner so and so then you can choose to release him.
whosthebestcop said:
Well then, my prisoners must know something important about their homeland that "they" don't want to get back. "They're" letting these guys rot in hell.
The AI will only ransom a prisoner if they're loyal, youngish, and have decent to good characteristics.
...Though, if they have the right triggers, I'm considering coding an event chain where their families will ransom them back out of their own pockets >_> .
...Though, if they have the right triggers, I'm considering coding an event chain where their families will ransom them back out of their own pockets >_> .