[.803][Gameplay][Suggestion] Caravans routes shouldn't be allowed more than once

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So I just finished building my caravan and decided to send one to every city.. well it turns out you can create multiple caravan routes to the same city. I think this requires you to build one of each grouping, (individual, party, squad, company) but it shouldn't be occuring at all. The ammount of gold/production that you can get from caravans is much much too high. If the game is insistant on forcing caravans to be trained, rather than just occuring automatically (which is preferable since not all cities need a command post), then they should only be trainable on an individual level and only one per route. 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm reasonably sure it's only working that way "right now" and will be fixed in the next update (maybe even the one after that). Definitely though, as you say, it's too high and needs some work, I agree. Most likely that would be a type of "default unit" that you can only build one of at a time instead of companies or platoons.

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Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

It has been acknowledged that resource gain from caravans has not been in any way balanced yet.  That is an extremely easy tweak though, that I'm sure many of us will be adjusting on our own.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

:) I thought it was a BUG that you could accidentally create a squad of Caravans.

I had been building Squads for my Army and forgot to turn it down and got 4 caravans (squad) in a group (non-breakable) I never did track their output though. (doh!)

Multiple (single) caravans moving between two (2) cities should be allowed if there are enough resource to support them and or to help offset one getting attacked leaving the route empty.

I would like to be able to assign more than one city as a destination when I create a Caravan. It seems reasonable that 1 Caravan could go to City A, then onto City B and then return to City C before starting the loop again.


Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

hmmm i dunno, i kinda like the idea of caravan squads.  this way you could create small, medium, and large caravans.  you could only have 1 going from town to town, but if you want more money and resources then you could create the bigger caravans.  these would be crazy expensive, so you would have to protect them.