Hi

Long time lurker.......new poster...really want to know about this:

Sorry if this has been asked or discussed before.......

For some reason, when I play video games I feel obliged to take the path of good or moral high ground.

So for this reason I never execute prisoners after winning a battle. At worst I offer them for ransom, if I feel their army is in the wrong, eg it has attacked me or is invading my land.

A lot of the time though I just release prisoners, meaning I have to fight them again. Often, there is no real advantage in winning a battle if the other side has more surviving prisoners than I have survivors.

My question is this: is their any advantage to releasing prisoners other than good traits and it being "the right thing to do" ?

A way of rewarding a player for releasing prisoners would be to have some of the prisoners joining your side in gratitude. This currently doesn't happen (still playing Vanilla)

Thanks in advance for any replies.