Caravan types

Tier 5 personal caravan on route from Winstead to Miraleth in Alpha-2. 3D model by Hal Anderson.

There are different types of Караваны in Ashes of Creation.

• Personal caravans.
• Mayoral caravans.
• System driven caravans.

Караваны

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3D-рендер каравана из Alpha-1. Модель за авторством Adam Will.

Караваны предоставляют возможность перемещения товаров для игроков, желающих заработать.

Мэрская система караванов - в процессе разработки.

Система караванов — одна из систем PvP в открытом мире, тесно связанная с балансом между возможностями и риском. Караваны предоставляют возможность перемещения товаров для игроков, желающих заработать.

• Караваны предназначены для перевозки личных товаров, а также припасов для замков и узлов, могут использоваться для помощи в выполнении заданий.

• Караваны можно отправлять только из узлов, развившихся до этапов деревни или выше; аналогичное требование касается пункта назначения каравана — это должен быть узел этапа деревня или выше.

• Караваны могут нести товары больше, чем одного игрока.
  • Владелец каравана может разрешить определённым игрокам резервировать место в своём караване посредством меню в здании караван-сарая своего узла.

Mayoral caravans

Quest to launch a mayoral caravan.

Mayoral caravans (also referred to as Trade caravans) are launched by Mayors to obtain needed resources from other nodes.

• Nodes answering these resource requests must have a trade agreement or alliance with the requesting node.

• Once the requesting mayor accepts a fill order from another node, a system driven caravan is spawned to transit the goods.

• Players can participate in helping to defend the caravan if they wish.

• Trade caravans can initiate world events.

Mayors who need certain resources that either they don't have enough of, or that they're prospectively investing in: they will initiate a mayor request, and any node that sees that request on the mayoral caravan drop-down menu will have an opportunity to attempt to fulfill the trade request. In order to fulfill a trade request, a node must have a certain level of relationship with that requesting node. At a minimum it has to be a trade agreement relationship; and then there's a limited number of those trade relationships that you can have; and that scales up to eventually alliance perspective. And then, once the node requesting mayor accepts a potential fill order, then a system spawned caravan is generated and the transit is completed. Players can participate in helping to defend that or not. – Steven Sharif

System driven caravans

System driven caravans (also referred to as Quest driven caravans) are system spawned caravans that are used for trade routes between nodes.

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• These are initiated by players with a diverse choice of routes and launch windows, making them difficult to zerg.
• Initiating a caravan from one node to another will create a PvP objective that players will need to defend while it moves along its chosen route to the selected destination.
• Дороги will upgrade as nodes advance. Different roads will dictate the speed and type of caravan required (off road vs on road).

The caravan system is designed to be initiated by the player. Which means, information of the caravans launch time and route, should be a closely guarded secret. Routes will also be diverse, and the world is large, so it might behoove you to scout the route ahead before a launch. Fast travel in our game is also limited, which means unless the guild had knowledge of your plans before hand, it is likely that they will be unable to organize and travel to a location. As far as mass guilds securing trade routes, there is always a bigger fish in the pond. Also caravans will have limitations on carrying capacity and launch windows that will segment mulitiple caravans by several minutes, which would space out the caravans, making it difficult to "zerg" a defense. – Steven Sharif

Personal caravans

Caravan speed is affected by caravan components and the type of roading.

There'll be different variants of each of the components, with the wheels for example, would have variants that will excel perhaps at off-road over on-road and vice versa. So right now we have caravans that are set up more for the on-road portion, but you will travel faster over roads, but that obviously comes with the increased risk of running into other players or monsters that are blocking the road. – Chris Justo

Personal caravans of different tiers deployed outside the Winstead node in Alpha-2. 3D models by Hal Anderson.

Personal caravans (also referred to as Self-directed/player-driven caravans) are utilized by players to transport cargo across Верра. These are land-based and water-based (raft caravans) that a single player drives and directs.

• Personal caravans are prepared and launched from caravansary buildings at Деревня (стадия 3) or higher nodes.

• Personal caravans can also be summoned in the open-world from caravansaries in nearby nodes.

• Personal caravans are capable of transitioning to/from raft caravans.

• Caravan components modify caravan stats and grant passive and active abilities to the caravan. Components can be upgraded to increase a caravan's power.

• By default, personal caravans have a racial appearance that influences the types of animals that are moving the caravan.
  • Players will be able to apply caravan skins to change the default appearance.

• Caravan drivers receive a significant defensive buff while they are driving a caravan. This reduces CC effects and increases damage mitigation significantly.

• The caravan owner is able to grant permissions to allow other players to drive their caravans. If these permissions are not activated by the owner then anyone can drive their caravans. If the caravan driver is killed or otherwise removed from the caravan then any player will be able to drive the caravan for a period of 15 to 20 minutes before the caravan despawns and becomes a wreckage.
  • A caravan will persist in the world for a period of 5 to 10 minutes from the time its owner logs out or is disconnected from the server.

• Caravans have collision, so other players could jump on the caravan while it is being driven.
  • Players or mounts trying to block caravans will be pushed out of the way.

Caravan inventory

Commodities crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a green symbol.

Materials crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a black symbol.

• Cargo transported by caravan and merchant ships must be stored in crates.

• There are small, medium, and large crates. The higher quality the crate, the greater its capacity.

• Commodities are transported by caravans and merchant ships in sealed crates.
  • Player commodities are "pre-crated" when they are purchased from commodities vendor NPCs.
  • Player commodities present in caravan wreckages have a portion of their value sunk (lost).
  • These commodities cannot be stored in a player's inventory. Looting them will convert them into stolen commodities which yield a lesser value when exchanged at black market locations in nodes.
  • To retain the value of the commodities, players must summon an empty caravan from a nearby node to collect and transport them.

Commodities can go into Crates to move them. If someone loses a Caravan, in the wreckage there are Crates. If you get a Crate to a Caravansary you can unpack it. – Ry Schueller

• Commodities crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a green symbol.
• Materials crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a black symbol.

• Unsealing crates (by breaking open sealed crates) yields less value than transporting the sealed crates for unloading. This is in addition to the value already lost when the caravan (or merchant ship) was destroyed.

• Glint must be transported via crate when in large quantities.

• Crates will undergo testing and iteration during Alpha-2.

Смотрите также

• Караваны
• Вьючные животные
• Экономика
• PvP
• Inventory