Useful Caravan Carts

[Gargantua]

Carvan Carts used to be very easy to find in 2238.  The Khans used to use these carts to lay traps in 2238.  Get 10 guys together,  go out in a caravan, get an encounter, and wait for PK's to drop in.

Carvan carts also used to force other players quite successfully.

I suggest the following:

#1 = Carts should disguise/hide the name(s) of players who are in the caravan!

#2 = A series of basic and repeatable quests are available, so long as you OWN your own Caravan Cart.  Far Go traders for example will hire you to take "boxes" in your caravan to the Den or wherever, and will give you several days to get there, and there will be large pay outs.  (Once per 24 hours up to 100-200k? or maybe staggered amounts depending on your success ratio?)

This gets players in large numbers, moving together on the worldmap, in RT or TB (their preference); and advantage is to the defender.  Should raiders "capture" the box, they can sell it for a small fee at the Raider base location. or something like that.

Would make for some epic caravan battles.

You could also restrict the amount of these quests given out, (max 5 at a time), and have a separate counter like TC, indicating that somewhere between HUB/DEN or whatever locations, there is a player caravan on the road.

[Kilgore]

As long as cars have a very large trunk capacity, all caravans will be useless despite the low price.

We can take a new approach to the caravan carts.
You could buy a caravan cart in public locations (towns) and sell them in other towns for profit (bottle caps), depending on what "goods' would be stored inside and how far it would be to transport them from town to town.
All encounters would be forced while in caravan.
You could encounter more powerful enemies.
(Optional) the caravan cart would be visible from worldmap when inside encounter.

And yeah, "refuelling" brahmins could use some improvements.

[Koveras]

This reminds me caravan selling abuse from 2238, or it's just a coincidence .

[Blarney]

You could buy a caravan cart in public locations (towns) and sell them in other towns for profit (bottle caps), depending on what "goods' would be stored inside and how far it would be to transport them from town to town.
All encounters would be forced while in caravan.
(Optional) the caravan cart would be visible from worldmap when inside encounter.

Hmm, selling the caravan cart itself, very interesting, like you would buy a "water cart" or "mineral cart" and it would sell for more in certain towns, that could be a nice easy way to do it for sure.

The forced encounters and visible caravans would definitely be interesting too, maybe only visible when very, very close to one though. I'm not sure you want to make it too difficult, also I'm not sure if you would want it travelling so slow that anyone who died while transporting or attacking the caravan could catch back up to it after respawning.

[Wichura]

Hmm, selling the caravan cart itself, very interesting, like you would buy a "water cart" or "mineral cart" and it would sell for more in certain towns, that could be a nice easy way to do it for sure.

OpenTTD combined with FOnline? Fuck yes!