caravan fights and travel time

Hi,
I'm very new to the forum. Before hand I would like to say I how nice the game developpement looks. I haven't been hyped for a game in a long time. Thank you for that.

I have a few questions going in my head about caravans.
- From what I understand caravans move at the same speed players do (or maybe a little faster?) but can they be targeted anywhere along the path?
If so I'm wondering for a long ride, if that would open the game to the same old "let's attack the caravan at 4 a.m"?
- Do caravans only work if players are escorting them or can they go unattended by players?
- given the size of the map, some caravan's trips could take realtime hours to go to their destination provided they don't have a specific speed boost. Then wouldn't we risk to see only small trips caravans? From a Gamemaster perspective I love to put my players in small scales scenarii. For instance I did an entire campagne out of a block street in the RPG Shadowrun. However I wonder if this wouldn't limit the game too much. If ressources are specific to certain locations, you would need to have some long distance exchanges to complete I suppose some or most of the production chains. But if these ressources can't get through or come at very slow pace wouldn't that be a deterent for the bulk of the players who will have a limited time to play?

Thank you for your answers and reflexions
best regards

Thruthfool

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daveywavey

Tyrantor wrote: »

If all Caravans have the walking NPC patrol with it seems unlikely it would impact the speed.

So, you keep the shiny raptor-cheetahs for yourself, and throw the crappy snail-frogs into the caravan. Works for me!

Sathrago

daveywavey wrote: »

Tyrantor wrote: »

If all Caravans have the walking NPC patrol with it seems unlikely it would impact the speed.

So, you keep the shiny raptor-cheetahs for yourself, and throw the crappy snail-frogs into the caravan. Works for me!

well for a caravan you probably want the tankiest strongest animals, perhaps even those that can regenerate health faster.

Voidwalkers

Am also curious of the max amount of defense a caravan can carry, and whether I can launch multiple caravans on the exact same route.

Let's say our merchant/artisan guild's planning on shipping piles of highly valuable ingots & dragon scales to the science metropolis to be crafted into the highest level of gears there.

Can we simultaneously launch say, 1 caravan carrying the goods, plus 4 other armed-to-the-teeth escort/decoy caravans packed with nothing but npc guards, archers, or even ballistas?

tl:dr: Can I modify caravans into IFVs?

daveywavey

Voidwalkers wrote: »

Can we simultaneously launch say, 1 caravan carrying the goods, plus 4 other armed-to-the-teeth escort/decoy caravans packed with nothing but npc guards, archers, or even ballistas?

I don't believe you can do it "simultaneously", but it depends on what the launch windows turn out to be like.

"Also caravans will have limitations on carrying capacity and launch windows that will segment mulitiple caravans by several minutes, which would space out the caravans"
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Caravans#Caravan_types

Voidwalkers

daveywavey wrote: »

I don't believe you can do it "simultaneously", but it depends on what the launch windows turn out to be like.

"Also caravans will have limitations on carrying capacity and launch windows that will segment mulitiple caravans by several minutes, which would space out the caravans"
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Caravans#Caravan_types

awwwww there goes my plans for an fully-armed combat-ready logistics battalion

daveywavey

Voidwalkers wrote: »

awwwww there goes my plans for an fully-armed combat-ready logistics battalion

Well, if you're driving them yourselves, there's no saying that you couldn't pause outside a city and wait for the next caravans to catch up.

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