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Caravan system!!!

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  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    I would expect a few lootable NPC foes on the caravan routes just so the game stays interesting when all the highway man players are off line or are busy. Other wise caravan escort would be boring on most trips. With the monster coin system you would never really know if your up against an NPC with good AI or a player running a coin or a player group coming at you. It could even be all three at once with a little planning. Trade will not be boring but that raises the spectre of it working at all on some very nasty servers.
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    I don't know how much the devs have said about this but:
    Seems to me that the caravan system is for moving big loads of resources/goods, unless there are diffrent sizes of caravans for instance if you want to move 2,000 marble for the wall or something or 20,000 marble logically you'd have diffrent sizes of caravan (multiple carts and such). And maybe if you're a startup merchant you might not have the means to send a caravan to a location you might have to get a mount and cart to then travel along a route with.

    As for attacking caravans I'm happy it's going to be something which takes effort if the defenders have planned well (hired NPC guards, player mercenaries, maybe chose a route less traveled/known.) So that it doesn't just end up a gank-fest where as soon as your caravan leaves the city walls it's destroyed. Since if it would degrade to that point trade would become imposible.

    Not saying that it shouldn't be like that sometimes (because the idea of a guild needing to come together to chase out some outlaws and put down the law seems awesome), just aslong as that isn't all the time/the standard on a server.

    Adding to that I'm also curious how trading/sending caravans along the sea will work, if that will become a thing.
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