If the mobs along the roads were tweeked for longer respawn times, to allow for temporary clearing of roads, then caravans would be more possible. Instead of a once a week move maybe once a month move/trek. After all regular treks are appreciated by new players and guilds already do the treks anyway, so why wouldn't they be able to be combined? Pyr has the best open air market of any city imo... but they all have plusesacridiel wrote: P.S.: Trekking all the Packers with wares to each capital in turn, each week, would sure be quite exciting and fun, the first few times.
But loosing just one packer to any danger, would drag into a recovery mission of the merchandise and just complicate matters further.
I addition to putting quite some pressure on those who´d like to sell things, to be at their destination in time.
The economy is currently majorly fubared due to the physical separation of market levels, low player population, lack of real worth to a third of mats (basics, which only grinders really buy) along with the resulting depression that buy-cheapest-mats-to-lvl brings to the economy..
As long as the Guilds are kept from dragging down prices or (the horror) giving away new items for free.. and using the markets as recruiting grounds, should work greatly for all.
I really like the player market idea, and the fact its going to be held on a regular basis means i might actually get to it sometime
