Caravan Radio

[Catoptromancy]

Just a radio channel that broadcasts caravan announcements. A simple single channel could just announce when a caravan will leave a town soon and to where its going.

More complex possible idea, each caravan company has a radio channel. Many people generally only take the same caravan, so this also makes sense. Will greatly reduce the spam if only one company broadcasts on each channel.

[Frosty]

I like it.

[Help Bot]

+1 I imagine hunters would love hearing about this, though the data is all in the HUB.

[Blarney]

One potential problem is it could be used by killers to track caravans easier for the purpose of attacking them, though, in reality and to me personally this isn't a "problem" at all, it would actually make caravans more interesting if there was a real threat of the Khans or some other group attacking the caravan route.

My vote goes to giving caravans a specific channel (or a channel per "company" but its not necessary), where they announce 1 hour before they depart and from where, announce departing, and possibly announce each time it encounters OR have it announce when the caravan has been killed.

Basically just the NPC from hubs dialogues put into the radio.

[Catoptromancy]

Basically just the NPC from hubs dialogues put into the radio.

That sounds good as well. The information from a specific company just gets broadcasted every 5 minutes or so. This ignores arrivals and departures, just broadcasts the hub dialog at interval.

[Strike]

+1, reserved radio channel for caravan schedules.

[Gargantua]

I am in support, finding caravans needs to be easier!

The Khans have worked hard on several occasions to attack Caravans.

That includes mapping all of the exact routes, and tests we conducted with only our own members in the caravan, confirming the exact square/location of an encounter, and then trying to enter with one of our raiding groups.

Needless to say it's extremely difficult to find these encounters, even when you are right on top of them, and we've met only minimal success, usually by chance/accident only.

Anything that can make Caravans a bigger target, I support.  Defenders have the advantage.

[Beer]

+1. this would be great. As both a person who does caravans a lot and pks people trying to join them lol. You can already see where caravans are but you need to talk to the caravan master in hub to do it. I think if they announced they are leaving in an hour from X heading to X would be great. But put it on radio channel 1 because it would suck to have it spamming 0 constantly. different channel for each company would just be annoying and unneeded.

[Gooseberry]

+1 Yeah I like this. Both for caravan raiders and those looking to defend caravans this is a nice addition. As Gargantua says it is really hard to encounter a caravan, even if you are right on top of one. So there should be no issue.

[jarok]

Interesting idea, I approve +1

[Kilgore]

Sounds good. Which channel? Inb4 threads like:

- please make it channel 0
- please change it from channel 0 to something else

[Mad Matt]

Sounds good. Which channel? Inb4 threads like:

- please make it channel 0
- please change it from channel 0 to something else

Other than 0 please.

[Dr. Mengelito]

Sounds good. Which channel? Inb4 threads like:

- please make it channel 0
- please change it from channel 0 to something else

Channel 1 of course!

[worldremaker]

The same as channel 0 because caravan's channel will be default anyway for both - newcommers and veterans.
The second thing - information can be transmitted by server broadcast.

[Gargantua]

Channel 1 would be good, and the Hub Caravan master can tell players that?