Caravane JcJ

Les Caravanes créent une zone de JcJ ouverte qui marque les joueurs pour le combat (violet).^[2]

Les joueurs auront la possibilité de déclarer leurs intentions d'attaquer, défendre ou d'ignorer grâce à une Interface utilisateur.^[3]^[4]
Un groupe devra attaquer une caravane avec succès.^[5]^[6]
Une caravane persistera dans le monde pendant une période de 5 à 10 minutes si son propriétaire se déconnecte ou s'il est déconnecté du serveur.^[7]

Caravan PvP incentives and risks

There will be incentives and risks for both caravan attackers and defenders.^[8]^[9] These will be tested and refined during the alpha and beta testing phases.^[10]

There is a level of risk that comes with the attacker. We have progression paths that exist for bandits and that exists for defenders; and if you choose to opt into a caravan attack- you sign up for that attack and you fail that attack- it is detrimental to your path of progression down the bandit area. That's one thing: Two is of course you have gear decay. You have degradation that can be suffered if you die. That is a cost. And then you also have a reputation; and if your reputation precedes you when you want to transit goods across the world; and you see somebody who's doing it and you want to participate as a defender or a participant, they might say hey screw you, you were just murdering my people last week and I saw that you're like on the top of the bandit list for killing caravans. So it has repercussions in the sense that it locks you out of certain player groups. It provides decay to your armor. It has deleterious effects on your progression, and the attacking- and the bandit progression of caravan attacks or defense.^[8] – Steven Sharif

A highwayman system tracks a player's performance in caravan PvP.^[11]^[8]^[9]^[10]
- This records successful or failed defenses and attacks and provides rewards that scale up over time based on the player's history.^[11]^[8]^[9]^[10]

PvP seasons reward performance in the caravan system over the course of the season.^[12]^[13]

Death penalties (mostly) do not apply to objective-based events (such as caravans, guild wars, and node sieges).^[8]^[9]^[14]^[15]
- Gear degradation applies on death during Caravane JcJ.^[8]^[9]

Other incentives and risks are social and are created (informally) between players.^[8]^[10]

Highwayman system

A highwayman system tracks a player's performance in caravan PvP.^[11]^[8]^[9]^[10]

This records successful or failed defenses and attacks and provides rewards that scale up over time based on the player's history.^[16]^[11]^[8]^[9]^[10]
- Increased proximity radius for notification of nearby caravan events.^[11]
- Better equipment.^[16]
- Faster ways to open crates.^[16]
- Higher yield from crates.^[16]
- Better caravan components for defenders.^[16]

The caravan defender role is going to have its own progression questing and rewards associated with it that are going to attract a certain subset of players and then vice-versa wise we're going to have incentives that appeal to the more highway brigand type players; and you might not always be on one side or the other: that might change depending on what your interests are in the at the time. But obviously those types of systems need to have robust consequential type rewards and benefits associated with them in order to compel the player; and that's something obviously we're going to test in alphas and betas and see how performant it is in actually attracting players to participate and make sure it's not just one-sided so-to-speak.^[10] – Steven Sharif

Q: Talk to me a little bit about the intended interaction of hunting caravans. What does mean? Can you progress in that? Can you identify these caravans from a distance? Is it intended to be diegetic or is it aided with mini-map?

A: Hunting a caravan is tending to be a lot more diegetic: You plant spies in other guilds, you build your information network in the world of Verra through whatever means you can. Now, there is progression paths involved with attacking and defending a caravan that can aid you in doing so, either with better equipment for it, faster ways to open crates, more yield from crates, and if you're a defender better components for your caravans, stuff like that.^[16] – John Collins

Destruction de caravane

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Si une caravane est détruite (devient une épave) elle fera tomber une partie des Produits qu'elle transportait.^[5]^[17]^[18]

Des composants de caravane peuvent également être ramassés lorsqu'une caravane est détruite. Ces composants peuvent être récupérés par le propriétaire de la caravane ou pas les autres joueurs, dans le cas où il s'agirait de composants de haute qualité.^[19]
Les caravanes font tomber des certificats pour des articles lourds qui peuvent être échangés au Nœud d'origine contre une partie des articles.^[20]^[18]

Une caravane devient une épave lorsqu'elle est détruite et cette épave devient un objet utilisable et les joueurs peuvent y récupérer des certificats à échanger contre une portion des articles à l'intérieur de la caravane. L'idée, ensuite, avec ces certificats est qu'ils doivent être ramenés au point d'origine, ou au moins une région à l'intérieur de ce point d'origine. Nous verrons à propos de cette dernière partie, car il existe quelques choses que j'aimerais tester dans l'Alpha d'un point de vue jouabilité. La raison étant que, ce qui pourrait se passer, si vous avez une sorte de collaboration à l'intérieur d'une guilde pour abuser du système. Hé ! Je vais suivre cette caravane jusqu'à la frontière de la zone et ensuite on la détruit tous, on ramasse tout et ont l'amène dans les entrepôts de cette région ; en évitant de parcourir tout le reste du chemin en l'escortant. Donc elle devra atteindre sa destination avec succès avant que les produits ne soient comptabilisés pour cette région.^[18] – Steven Sharif

Caravan skills

Caravan components grant passive and active skills to a caravan.^[21]

Skill	Icon	Description
Collect Cargo		Pick up cargo nearest the mouse location and add them to your caravan's storage if there's enough room.^[22]
Convert to Caravan		Allows the raft caravan to turn into a vehicle that can traverse land.^{[ citation requise ]}
Convert to Raft		Allows the caravan to turn into a vehicle that can cross calm waters.^[23]
Healing Aura		Provides healing to nearby defenders over time.^[24]
Repulsor Blast		Blast away nearby attackers.^[25]
Speed Boost		Gives the caravan a temporary speed boost.^[26]