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If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
Denial of Caravan PvP Winner Loot
FW_Dave
Member, Alpha Two
The feature recently implemented for being able to talk to the Caravan Trader and recover your stuck caravan has unexpected side effects that can be used as a form of denial.
Should your caravan be attacked and you believe all is lost and its unrecoverable, you can speak to the Caravan NPC and perform the caravan recovery process. As per the text it says your caravan will be destroyed, however, it is instead sacrificed to the aether - the caravan along with any and all commodities that it holds are just deleted.
This capability can be used to ensure that caravans on the brink of defeat do not yield any spoils to the victor. This further removes any benefit from attacking a caravan other than being a direct denial of gold generation/acquisition.
I have three thoughts on how this could be better improved:
1. Caravan can only be recover deleted when it is at max health.
2. Caravans can only be recover deleted when they are in recovery mode. Although this doesnt help situations where your caravan in a permanently stuck state (I had a raft stuck in land before and it never went to recovery crate mode, even after server resets it was still there).
3. The Caravan, or recovery create, is actually destroyed and spills any and all cargo on to the floor. This would allow for attackers to get their loot, or potentially even recover your own cargo. This option could possibly be abused as a form of commodity glint trading however.
Should your caravan be attacked and you believe all is lost and its unrecoverable, you can speak to the Caravan NPC and perform the caravan recovery process. As per the text it says your caravan will be destroyed, however, it is instead sacrificed to the aether - the caravan along with any and all commodities that it holds are just deleted.
This capability can be used to ensure that caravans on the brink of defeat do not yield any spoils to the victor. This further removes any benefit from attacking a caravan other than being a direct denial of gold generation/acquisition.
I have three thoughts on how this could be better improved:
1. Caravan can only be recover deleted when it is at max health.
2. Caravans can only be recover deleted when they are in recovery mode. Although this doesnt help situations where your caravan in a permanently stuck state (I had a raft stuck in land before and it never went to recovery crate mode, even after server resets it was still there).
3. The Caravan, or recovery create, is actually destroyed and spills any and all cargo on to the floor. This would allow for attackers to get their loot, or potentially even recover your own cargo. This option could possibly be abused as a form of commodity glint trading however.
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