Are Caravans Worth It?

[ZeroRadium]

I have invested a fair amount of money into 4 caravans and I hunted down some people to lead them who have 60-100 trade stat. I picked cities with decent prosperity and yet I am only getting 300-100 Denars per day on average. I watched a youtuber make a video on them and he was getting 600+ from each one everyday and I have no clue as to why. Does anyone have some secret sauce they could lend to me as to how spending all of this money on caravans isn't better than just being a merc? Are workshops the way to go? Or should I just merc it up?

[BIG E.]

They are not.

Farm around +300k with quests and tournaments, join a faction, get some castles/towns under your banner. Best way to have passive income.

Neither workshops or caravans do anything, even if caravans did anything they constantly get attacked in the late game so its never worth it. A single battle loot gives you more than 50 weeks of caravan income.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by ZeroRadium:

Are Caravans Worth It?

I have 5 caravans, and today they averaged 700 denars each. That's over 3500 denars a day.

And it's low risk because I'm not at war with anyone.

[LilithHecateZillah]

High scouting is more important than high trade, why? Since it makes the caravan move faster to cities and it has an easyer time evading enemies so less '' gooffing '' around trying to run instead of going to a city.

[Wotannatow]

I got one caravan running. The most I've seen it do in one day was just below 3500 but those numbers are very rare. Most of the time the income ranges from a few hundred to a thousand.

[ZeroRadium]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

Originally posted by ZeroRadium:

Are Caravans Worth It?

I have 5 caravans, and today they averaged 700 denars each. That's over 3500 denars a day.

And it's low risk because I'm not at war with anyone.

How did you get them to 700 denars a day? High scouting?