Jobs for lowly fighters.. Or ways to make coin outside of the arena..

[Wild Bill Kelso]

In older versions of M&B a player could make a contract with a merchant to escort a caravan from one city to another.   Since merchants have now changed it is understandable that this feature has been removed.  However, why not allow a player to hire himself out to actually be part of a caravan?  The player would get more money in his contract based on a combination of the amount of men he is bringing with him and their combat quality.  If the player agrees to the contract then his company would actually be contained within the caravan and he wouldn't have any control over where it is moving.  However, the player would have the ability to "bail" (by pressing "tab"?) on the caravan should he feel that it's too risky.  Bailing should though, make it much more difficult for a player to be hiered in the future, or should cause merchants to offer much less if the player chooses to hire his company out as guards.  I am not sure how this would work in regards to faction relations though..

Additional-  I guess the hiring out would best be handled by using the guildmaster.

 

[hellbound]

I think this is a great idea. It would also open up for a new kind of skirmish; when you and the caravan is attacked, the caravan would show as a prob on the battlefield and you and the guards would have to defend it against the raiders...

 

[Wild Bill Kelso]

I think this is a great idea. It would also open up for a new kind of skirmish; when you and the caravan is attacked, the caravan would show as a prob on the battlefield and you and the guards would have to defend it against the raiders...

I was envisioning something like that last night when this idea popped into my my.  It would be neat to see a bunch of overburdened horses running around the battlefield

 

[QuailLover]

In the new version you can walk up to a caravan and ask if they need more protection/escort. And pays decently well.

 

[Wild Bill Kelso]

In the new version you can walk up to a caravan and ask if they need more protection/escort. And pays decently well.

I think that was also in 0.903 and maybe earlier.  This aspect could be implemented into it pretty easily-  Instead of having your party wandering around beside the caravan as it currently does t would actually become part of it