Caravan destinations and how they should determine cargo

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leo

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Caravans could have different loot depending on where they're heading to.

For instance, an imaginary caravan on its way to Khudan ought to be holding lots and lots of ale, since ale is in high demand in Khudan and sells well there. A caravan on its way to Uxhal would carry an enormous amount of salted fish, and a caravan on its way to Praven would carry some spice (since spice is more expensive, obviously they'd carry way less spice than a fish-caravan would carry fish).

Now that I've covered why it makes sense, let me list the reasons why it would be fun:

1) If you know the trading system well enough, you'd know which caravans to plunder to get which types of goods. For instance, if your army were starving, you could chase down whatever caravans you see heading to Uxhal and plunder their fish.

2) It'd make it possible to ambush a caravan right outside of its destination immediately resell the loot for very favorable prices. It would be cool.

It makes good economic sense and would add another element of character to the game.
 
That will be nice, a good step towards a dynamic world.

For balancing issues, i would suggest the caravan has a maximum X slots and Y worth of goods, so you won't raid a velvet caravan and get tons of money too fast.

Hopefully trading will be a bit more useful at later versions ...
 
Either that, or the caravans carrying expencive goods, would be heavily guarded (since expencive goods, means rich merchant, means he can afford bigger army) so it would be a lot more difficult to hit such caravans.
This however, will not make the high end game boring, since there would always be somebody to ambush and rob no matter how powerful you become ::grin: (and of course get bigger gains)

Otherwise, once you hit level 30+, and have a nice army, raiding ANY caravan would be a waste of your time since there would be not much to gain, neither would it be challenging ::\
 
Gawd
I meant a price/unit cap for the same type of caravan, so you wouldn't get a caravan with 20 units of fish and a caravan with 20 units of velvet with the same defense.
 
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