Increasing caravan size?

[Kristian37]

Can only have 30 person caravans and even with the 22k upgraded version they literally die to looters. Any way to increase that cap?

[Clovis Sangrail]

Not without modding the system.

[Ⓦⓗⓘⓩⓚⓘⓓ]

its TW way of just making stuff hard for the player to force them to lose their caravans, where npc has 5 more per caravans, to top things off the caravans will be destroyed once 30+ size bandits start roaming the map again its 20k-25k down the drain and its not for early gameplay but in later parts it gets destroyed by enemy factions, where is the risk vs reward system, sadly it's just all risk with no rewards...

[Sabaithal]

After experimenting with caravans for a bit, I've always found that the more expensive option actually ends up getting wrecked far more often. I think because they're slower. Don't go for it.

[desaix]

Caravan size used to be affected by clan level (so it would be 45 by clan level 2, 60 by level 3, etc.). Part of the mega-nerf that utterly destroyed caravan usefulness from a year ago permanently restricted caravan size to below that of NPC caravans.

[pryt]

I went into full workshops only, especially with the free renown per profitable workshop perk in trading. It's better in the long run, even with caravans being a bit more profitable first they will cost more money and patience later on.

[desaix]

Originally posted by pryt:

I went into full workshops only, especially with the free renown per profitable workshop perk in trading. It's better in the long run, even with caravans being a bit more profitable first they will cost more money and patience later on.

Pre-nerf, caravans were good sources of money, and while they could be destroyed (especially by warring nations) rarely were. Not any more. There was ONE redeeming feature caravans were SUPPOSED to have, but near as I can tell was never implemented -- caravans were SUPPOSED to give you trade XP. Still don't, so... yeah, after experimenting to see if they ever fixed that, I just don't bother with them, now.