I'm curious how long you guys have been playing? I've had caravans make well over 1K , and currently I have 3-5 shops all making 400+
Caravans are mostly useless because once they get destroyed they don't just respawn. But the shops arnt a bad investment at all. Specially in the long term.
Think my main character is 1000 days + and I have around 3.98 mill. Alot of that was from the workshops / caravans (prior to the patch) allowing my income to build up .
They need to allow shop management like in warband, where you can drop off resources and distribute your product manually