This seems to be a fairly recent change. With ATB : random captures turned on, prisoners would be added as prisoners to your personnel roster and after every battle, mekHQ would roll to see if they would defect to your side, and defected prisoners had to be manually adjusted (they would remain as prisoners otherwise with no way to see if they had defected).
In the latest version, 0.3.11, i noticed that prisoners after a battle would always get added straight to your personnel roster and would never be marked as "prisoner". Infact, the daily log simply says "xxx has been added to the personnel roster" instead of "xxx was taken captive".
One consequence of this is that they immediately start drawing pay as they are counted as part of your unit's roster instead of as prisoners. I checked history.txt but i could not find any mention of this being an intended change so i am guessing it is a bug? Can someone please confirm?
See the save file in this archive, i just finished a battle and all the "prisoners" were added as new hires instead.
Duplicate of [#786]
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