Merchant wagons anyone?

I know we will have local shops in towns, and caravans going from place to place, moving goods and supplies. But I got to thinking. Will we see the need for a Merchant wagon? Not small carts, but a full-sized wagon, one were you can take your goods to different towns, and sell from the wagons, vs setting up a stale in the town.

This isn't a new idea, and in the real world has been done, and is still being done today. Food truck anyone?

I just think it would be a nice touch to the game, limit the number of items you can sell, so your not going around with 1 million of whatever your selling, and it should be out to raid parties just like a regular caravan. Just unlike a caravan, you can sell from the wagon.

What do you guys think? good idea or bad?

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T Elf

jahlon wrote: »

elf wrote: »

@jahlon
But there is a huge difference between seeing 100 people in an area selling stuff and 100 mobile shops

6 of one; half dozen the other.

Azathoth

I like the mobile cart idea, but I think it should function like the caravans. Auto-flagged for PvP.

T Elf

azathoth wrote: »

I like the mobile cart idea, but I think it should function like the caravans. Auto-flagged for PvP.

LOL that just makes it a caravan.

Azathoth

Well, to my understanding you can't stop a caravan and sell wares directly from it. I'm suggesting that if you can take a merchant wagon about and set it up to sell wares, like a caravan, it should flag up for PvP.

But I do see the resemblance.

T Elf

A caravan is not designed to stop along the road and sell wares; it's designed to be a traveling PvP zone with rewards for either making it to it's destination (where the reward is either being sold or stored) or being overcome and looted.
Whereas, the purposed cart does not create a zone, and it's goal is not a destination; it would be treated the same as the person owning it.

Azathoth

Interesting idea I guess. As long as there was no way of potentially using it to avoid the caravan system, then not auto flagging for PvP would make sense. However, if the merchant wagon is being used to transport goods from one town to the next for trade that seems like the purpose of caravans to me.

The OP also suggests it should be like a caravan, just one that can stop and sell goods. Others suggested to bring guards to protect from bandits. So maybe I should have just said I agree with them.

I think that if there are travelling carts that can stop and sell wares, they should auto flag for PvP. Since caravans can't stop and sell wares, and could be designed to carry more supplies, that would be the difference.

T Elf

I agree the cart should not replace caravans, and be purple.
Giving it a thought on the whole, this probably won't be implemented.

Amist

I think with how the node system and economy is going to work, this would cause problems in terms of needing citizenship to place your carts.

Would you be able to enter a city if your merchant cart is from another city?

And wouldn't it take away the efficiency/purpose of stalls?

T Elf

My thought was the carts would be purely for travel, and not be available in cities in place of stalls.

[Deleted User]

So.. like mobile stalls.

And a different / specialised caravan, albeit possibly one of limited size.
One that requires activity to keep in use, not afk usable.

One that is banned from trading within city bounds.. to avoid @Jahlons mass invasion of vendors

Hmm, if you want to encourage trade only within the city, then what about, rather than penalising the itinerant peddlers, give city bonuses to consumers within the city. You buy within our bounds, your rep with us increases. Or something similar.

If you do it that way, the benefit of being able to sell on the move is then offset by a less attractive product.

Possibly?

Karthos

So like the guy in a 1994 rust colored Nissan selling bootleg CDs out of his trunk in the WalMart parking lot?

granthor

karthos wrote: »

So like the guy in a 1994 rust colored Nissan selling bootleg CDs out of his trunk in the WalMart parking lot?

Something like that, but with a few more options. lol

Nagash

what about a ice cream wagon

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