Losing all caravan parts feels way too punishing given how easy they are to kill

Losing all your cargo feels like fair game, but losing the whole caravan? For how easy they are to kill, that feels way too punishing.

Suggestion:
1) Buying insurance before leaving town; cost scaled with quality of the insured part and how often caravans are killed in the region. Insured parts are restored upon caravan destruction. If the run is succesful, the insurance acts as a gold sink. Let the player choose their risk/reward ratio.
2) Heavily armored caravans should have massive health regeneration, like the high-HP 3-stars mobs as of this week. Thus you would need at least 2-3 very geared dps level 25s to do decent damage to a high armor caravan. Killing a caravan as a solo player should not be possible, given that attacking is completely free.
3) Driver should be immune while driving. Attacking a caravan should mean attacking a caravan, not dropping the driver while they're defenseless and then stop the caravan dead in its track while you gather your group.

(PS) Flying mount nerf: This one is a bit of a tangent, but infinite flying mounts in a caravan war context is extremely overpowered, both in terms of scouting and air-raiding. Yes, it's only for a few people on the server, but it's still incredibly oppressive with 0 counterplay possible. Limit flying mount usage to an elixir-like consumable that allows you to use it for X minutes, and afterwards it needs to rest until the following week. That way it's still very strong, but can't be a forever-OP bonus to guilds wanting to lock things down.

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asheaustaire

Veeshan wrote: »

Imanek wrote: »

I’ll add one more point.

There should also be a reward for a successful defense, similar to an event. If the caravan is defended and safely escorted to its destination, participants should receive some XP and glint.

To ensure fairness, the system should consider the scale of the attack and the effort required for defense to determine a balanced reward. For instance, if four defenders repel a single attacker, the reward will be minimal. However, in a 10v10 battle, the reward will be much more significant.

This way, more players will be encouraged to defend caravans for strangers—since, after all, players are driven by incentives.

caravan owner should be paying the defenders tbh i do usualy when people defend my caravan for the trip usualy i split 20%-30% of the profit typically when trip is done

What if when you embark on a caravan you can create a sort of comission, and anyone who would join your caravan under your comissions specifications, would be given some sort of reward that comes out of your pocket?

Veeshan

Noaani wrote: »

SmileGurney wrote: »

In a game like Eve Online, if you attack someone elses ship, then you are risking your own. Here, not so much.

My opinion is that Intrepid shouldn't want people attacking a caravan unless they either specifically want what is on board, or they specifically want to deprive that guild or node of economic means. If it is just some random caravan passing by, in my opinion Intrepid should be discouraging people from engaging, not encouraging it.

80% of people will run straight past a caravan, 95% of people will run straight past if there a single escort, 99% of people run past of if there like muiltipul escorts.

So yeah i would people are somewhat discouraged from attacking it. ifyour getting hit constantly on caravans i feel your guild or you urself have done something to encourage it. ive done most of my caravans solo and 98% of the time i dont get hit by anyone.

People usualy cant be fudged dealing with it if they do manage to take it and destroy it unless there near guildies who can come and assist cause if they do take it then they have the issue of risking there caravan to bring it back with atleast one angry person wanting there shit back which is more of a risk to your caravans than the original defender had since they definelty have somone hunting it down.

SmileGurney

Veeshan wrote: »

Why do you think they would attack a caravan and then completely ignore the content

"Some men just want to watch the world burn."

Is this your first time in sandbox MMORPG with open-"ish" pvp?

Veeshan

SmileGurney wrote: »

Veeshan wrote: »

Why do you think they would attack a caravan and then completely ignore the content

"Some men just want to watch the world burn."

Is this your first time in sandbox MMORPG with open-"ish" pvp?

naa i play open world pvp games all the time but when it group orinated gameplay actions have consequences ives seen many people get kicked from groups cause guild X doesnt like Guild Y or person X ninja looted something in another group :P
Destroying caravans are the same if x guild attacked my caravan ill probaly attack them if i see them running theirs however i typicaly leave them alone when running around the world if they havant done anything to me or the guild yet

Noaani

Veeshan wrote: »

Noaani wrote: »

SmileGurney wrote: »

In a game like Eve Online, if you attack someone elses ship, then you are risking your own. Here, not so much.

My opinion is that Intrepid shouldn't want people attacking a caravan unless they either specifically want what is on board, or they specifically want to deprive that guild or node of economic means. If it is just some random caravan passing by, in my opinion Intrepid should be discouraging people from engaging, not encouraging it.

80% of people will run straight past a caravan, 95% of people will run straight past if there a single escort, 99% of people run past of if there like muiltipul escorts.

Yeah, that's the point.

Keep in mind, when the game goes live people will have the ability to build wealth. Right now there is no point in attacking a caravan because you don't keep the wealth past the next character wipe - when the game goes live you gain that wealth for the remainder of your time in the game.

With no risk involved, most people will at least give it a go.

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