Escort merchant caravan: Long distances

[Honeycone]

The escort merchant caravan quest should either:
- notify the player which towns the caravan intends to go to
OR
- enforce a maximum distance limit

Right now I'm escorting a caravan literally across the entire map, I didn't sign up for this.

[VOLUME SHOOTER]

lol

[Aethrys]

OTOH, in my experience longer caravan travel seems to result in greater reward.

[Mars Cariocecus]

Yes you did, lol. Sometimes they go to the nearest towns and the quest is over in a minute and sometimes they are on a road trip.

[pfroddam]

If you check the caravan, by hovering mouse over it...it will say where it is headed next. I have not had a caravan travel across the whole map for a few patches now myself...but sounds worth reporting on TW or steam bug/crash/balance reporting forums in case they agree that the ultra long haul caravans are a problem.

Bear in mind, you signed up to escort a merchant caravan...some merchants like to travel long distances due to profit being worth it to them...so im afraid you did, in fact, sign up for that ;)

[MisterSpock]

Lets be honest. Most quests are not rewarding.
@pfroddam, the solution is not playing the quest? pff...

[Muh macht die Kuh]

where do you get those quests?

[Aethrys]

Originally posted by Muh macht die Kuh 👍:

where do you get those quests?

Sometimes available from city merchant notables.

[pfroddam]

Originally posted by MisterSpock:

Lets be honest. Most quests are not rewarding.
@pfroddam, the solution is not playing the quest? pff...

That would be your opinion, and each players choice to make ;)

[Gustavus Octopus]

The rly long ones award quite a bit of money. The longest I have done gave me about 9k, which is alot early on.

[RedAugustus]

You want a longer trip.. it nets you more cash. If you go far enough you can net 8-10k early game which is huge.

[pfroddam]

Originally posted by MisterSpock:

Originally posted by pfroddam:

That would be your opinion, and each players choice choice to make ;)

Thats not an opinion, its a game design which still need tweaking. I cant stand ppl with this everything-is-fine-so-stfu mentality. This is an earlyaccess. Try not defend stuff which will may be fixed soon.

Really not sure how my original post triggered anyone...

Erm, and while I agree on the early access, lots of balancing to be done...It is an opinion...my opinion is that the many of the quests, with some exceptions, are good enough that a lot of my recent playthroughs involve seeking out quests and doing them...that is just my opinion though ;)

[Roz Britanicus]

Be good if you could just assign a follow option. The long caravan escorts are good money.

[MisterSpock]

Originally posted by pfroddam:

Originally posted by MisterSpock:

Thats not an opinion, its a game design which still need tweaking. I cant stand ppl with this everything-is-fine-so-stfu mentality. This is an earlyaccess. Try not defend stuff which will may be fixed soon.

Really not sure how my original post triggered anyone...

Erm, and while I agree on the early access, lots of balancing to be done...It is an opinion...my opinion is that the many of the quests, with some exceptions, are good enough that a lot of my recent playthroughs involve seeking out quests and doing them...that is just my opinion though ;)

Ok ok maybe im overreacted, sry. Just wanted to point out that "everything is fine" is not the way.

[rudoyd]

There might be also a problem with caravan logic.
I had one quest starting in Baltakhand for 3 towns destination. First was Tyal (close and easy), followed by Revyl (almost other side of the map, might as well sell my spare horses), than it went back to Baltakhand to refill!!!! and final town Balgard.
after that quest I never again did escort personally, I would rather have all my companions run around