Why supply the camp?

[Stretchytall]

What's the point of supplying the camp? I just reached that point in the game. Food, medicine, and ammo are all low, but I don't seem to be getting any ill effect from those statuses.

[notscarybanana]

there is no point in doing it. you can spend an entire playtrough whitout paying a cent to camp.

but make sure to check out the ledger, upgrading dutches camp lets you upgrade arthurs camp witch gives you a fast-travel map that you can use whit your personal campfire

[EVIL Shenanigans]

Supplying meat to Pearson generally improves the effects of the community stew he makes, once daily. Supplying trophies (to Person) and valuables / money (to the money box) will allow you to make purchases towards camp improvement; this includes restocking the food / medicine / weapon wagons. As the other user said, this is all entirely optional.

[Sagittarius A*]

Originally posted by Stretchytall:

What's the point of supplying the camp? I just reached that point in the game. Food, medicine, and ammo are all low, but I don't seem to be getting any ill effect from those statuses.

Paying for supplies just restocks what's available for you to take from the Med, Weapon, and Food wagons if you're low and don't want to scavenge. Upgrading the wagons just increases the quality of the items you can take.

Buying the chicken coop and bringing Pearson a perfect quality animal carcass daily will provide you with gold cores when you eat from the camp stew.

There's definitely benefits to supplying the camp and purchasing the camp upgrades. But other than that, like the others have said, it's not necessary to do at all. Though, you'll eventually get harped at by Dutch, Susan, and a few others if you don't.

Also, it's subtle, but the mood of the gang does change along with dialogue. The members will argue with each other more and be sort of petty towards one another if you don't upgrade the camp and supply it. There's actually a camp morale system.

[SirPantsington]

There's really no point except upgrading Arthur's camp for fast travel

[Sagittarius A*]

Originally posted by SirPantsington:

There's really no point except upgrading Arthur's camp for fast travel

Untrue... There are many in game differences between doing so, and not.

[SirPantsington]

Originally posted by Sagittarius A*:

Originally posted by SirPantsington:

There's really no point except upgrading Arthur's camp for fast travel

Untrue... There are many in game differences between doing so, and not.

I was talking gameplay

[Man o' War]

Camp Spoiler Below

It is an unfortunate fact and most players won't realise it but supplying the camp is actually pointless, the same as buying the boat for the camp.

It's a little like scrubbing the decks on a seventeenth century sailing ship, it has no real purpose but keeps the mind occupied.

The only real point of the camp is to upgrade Arthurs satchel.

[Stretchytall]

I couldn't believe there's no purpose, so I googled it. This page claims camp supplies influence camp morale, which influences your honor rating.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/red-dead-redemption-2-camp-needs

[SouthpawSX]

Supplying the camp is worthless. I guess you'll get some honor, but other than that, it's absolutely ridiculous.

[Man o' War]

Originally posted by Stretchytall:

I couldn't believe there's no purpose, so I googled it. This page claims camp supplies influence camp morale, which influences your honor rating.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/red-dead-redemption-2-camp-needs

Camp morale is a nonsense.

As for honour it's the easiest thing to up or down, it really is.

Get your low honour things out of the way early such as robbing people, after that just concentrate on the game the way you want to play it.

You'll reach high honour in no time.

[Cyclops]

All of you is heartless! We need Money!! For all of us to Live! We need to go to TAHITI! Why won’t you help us Arthur?

[$2 Hero]

Instead of looting houses and bodies you just stock up at camp.