Talk:Acquisitor/@comment-76.100.217.204-20141013135300

Hmm. In the above article note: If picking up items is truly an inconvenience then feel free to pick up this inclination ...

This contradicts information on the Pawn Inclination page (and my experience). One of the primary shapers of pawn inclination is your character's behavior/play-style. If you do lots of something, your pawn will gradually begin doing it, too. That behavior may well be reflected in the pawn's inclinations. Monkey-see-monkey-do as the article puts it.

Picking up things isn't a matter of "convenience." The game requires you to have many of these items, and, up front, you don't know which and how many of each you'll need. So if we assume pawn acquisitors are useless, if we'd never allow our own pawns to be secondary acquisitors and if we can't be bothered to pick stuff up on our own, we'll seriously hobble a major game-play fundamental.

However, if we shoulder the involved behaviors of acquisition ourselves, then we need to be prepared our pawns may well get the drift. It isn't inevitable, but it happens far more often if we scurry around getting everything ourselves.

If you can't abide the inclination "Acquisitor" as a second inclination (for obvious reasons, I'd never want it as a primary one), then I suggest you always carry at least 10 each of the two elixirs you want for your pawn's inclination. I keep them in active inventory. When the inclination changes, feed your pawn 10 of the inclination you want as the secondary, then 10 of the inclination you want as the primary. Remember: Second inclination first; first inclination second! And sit in a Knowledge Chair every chance you get, even a couple of times in the same "day," and always choose the inclination answer you want as your secondary inclination--the other option is your pawn's third inclination. Then, hopefully, you can keep that Acquisitor urge at bay (though it will probably return unless you stop picking things up).

I've found having my pawn or someone else's be an secondary acquisitor is helpful for the phases of the game where acquisition is intense. Later, I keep Acquisition out of the picture using elixirs and racing past all the drops. ;)