Transportation Tiers as far as speed goes. With a slight focus on Ships.

Dolyem

Just a very simple concept I was considering while brainstorming regarding Risk vs Reward, keeping the world overall active, and travel options. Some is based on what we have been given and some is just how I think it would be good to design it. Just theory/suggestions.

- Tier 0 - Caravans should be slow in order to increase the risk of running them. that way the reward is earned proportionally to the risk.

- Tier 1 - Your base movement is obviously just on your own 2 feet, the speed here is simply affected by your class choices because it is likely that some classes are more mobile than others.

- Tier 2 - Basic Mounts (Land/water) allowing for faster than normal transportation, likely the most common type depending on the varieties of mounts or mount abilities Intrepid decides to implement. Some may be better than others, but generally I would toss typical mounts into this category

- Tier 3 - Node Fast travel features, this is still up in the air but the reason I wouldn't put this in a higher tier is because it is limited to only the nodes affected by the appropriate metropolis, but it is super efficient to be able to fast travel even if it is only limited to the Zone of Influence.

- Tier 4 - Ships, I believe that they should be exceptionally fast, thus creating a reason for sailing to be an option vs just running or riding a mount somewhere. This can increase traffic on the seas as well as creating more instances where people are attacked at sea. If there isn't enough risk to this, there can simply be less/no corruption penalties when at sea, assuming it would be out of typical node zones of influence. Thus, faster transport with potentially more resources while risking open battle.

- Tier 5 - Flying mounts, obviously the most exclusive form of transportation would have the most merits. Its obvious that a fast flying mount B-lining to a destination will always be the fastest choice. There isn't necessarily risk for this reward, just being better or luckier than the rest.



The ship idea is likely the centerpiece for this discussion, I just think it would likely keep the seas from being barren of players and make a sort of "beyond our borders" feel that grants opportunity and danger.

CROW3

Love the topic, @Dolyem.

Since you’re focusing on ships, I’d expect that there would be a barge caravan option that would move slower that your standard player owned ship. That way you would have the same risk/reward proportion for port trade cities, and create the opportunity for player pirates.

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