Caravan Security (09/15/2011)

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Patch 1.19 will see the introduction of caravan security duty.
This series of repeatable Grand Company duties tasks players with escorting a caravan of chocobos bearing supplies to nearby hamlets.

Undertaking Caravan Security

Only those who have pledged their full allegiance to a Grand Company can undertake caravan security. To do so, simply speak to the NPC representing your organization stationed at the following aetheryte camps:

The Maelstrom: Camp Bloodshore
The Order of the Twin Adder: Camp Tranquil
The Immortal Flames: Camp Horizon

The caravan will come under attack en route to its destination. Players must fend off the hostile creatures and see the caravan safely to the hamlet within the allotted time limit. Those who complete the task will earn company seals based on the amount of cargo delivered intact.

The caravan will come to a halt when enemies appear, and will only resume its march once all enemies are defeated.
* Only participating players can attack duty-specific enemies.
Chocobos may flee the caravan if they incur too much damage.
Chocobos that flee will stop a certain distance away from the caravan, but not before losing a unit of cargo.
Players can coax a chocobo back to the caravan by interacting with it.
Feeding chocobos their favorite foods recovers their health.
All chocobos must be present in order for the caravan to resume its march.

Abandoning Caravan Security

Players can abandon caravan security by speaking with the caravan master NPC and selecting the appropriate option.

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...362#post338362

Looks neat!

Lawl someone else did it at the same time, can I delete this thread somehow?

Yours has a nice date, so I'm posting in this thread.

It is now the legitimate one.

As for the actual content, well it looks nice, but I'd like to see it in action. Hopefully they'll build on it and add carriages and such later. Maybe once they get combat on chocobos, we'll get to defend them against more mobile enemies on chocoback.

hopefully this wont be a one time quest...
since it is caravan, it should happen more than once..
but having it as daily or same reset timer like leve will be annoying too.
maybe having some alternative quests will be better..
at least people wont get bored with it too fast...

It is stated in description as being repeatable, and as I posted in the other thread I think maybe 1 every hour to a max of 4 hours is a reasonable timer.

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Originally Posted by Tigerme

hopefully this wont be a one time quest...
since it is caravan, it should happen more than once..
but having it as daily or same reset timer like leve will be annoying too.
maybe having some alternative quests will be better..
at least people wont get bored with it too fast...

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This series of repeatable Grand Company duties tasks players with escorting a caravan of chocobos bearing supplies to nearby hamlets.

I hope this will be balanced for at least Light Parties and not another solo content.

Yay! More things to do!

this definately sounds like a light party deal, yes it is probably soloable but you would probably have a lot of the chocobo's running off, so it is best to do caravan escort's like they do in real life with mulitple guards.

Thats cool!!, reminds me of the Firefaire bomb thing. I hope you cant use magic to Cure chocobo though, food only! =)

Unless there is some randomness in this, it will get old after like 2 or 3 tries. Hopefully it will scale with the number of people though. More people = harder mobs = more seals.

I suspect that seals => exp scrolls will have plenty of people participating long term. Unlike a raid with limited gear that can all be collected, as long as you need to rank up crafting or gathering the scrolls come in handy. As long as the seal reward is commensurate with effort/time that is. 50 seals, I'd probably keep repeating to buy 200 seal scrolls. 1-10 seals....ugh...too much effort.

Now too decide which one to join....

But those aren't stackable. Gathering using those scrolls you would have to port back to town repeatedly. At least with crafting you can craft near where you buy them.

Additionally, they don't appear to give significant amounts of SP. I've been using them at rank 45 miner/botany and while they give a 50% boost to SP per knock, it only lasts for 15,000 SP or, in other terms, an extra 5k SP. Not sure if the amount scales based on your rank cuz if you got that much at low ranks it could potentially be quite a bit. 40+ though and it's somewhat dismal.

The way I understand it, they are the same regardless of rank. It would be nice if you could invest in higher ones:

200 seals +50% for 5,000 sp
400 seals +50% for 12,000 sp
1000 seals +50% for 50,000 sp

That would be kind of cool.

they also posted on a prior post that these escorts are leading the way to Halmlet battle system also that they said was coming in .20 or .21 so that should be interesting also. maybe will be something like the monsters attacking a grand company base.

You know what these missions need, the Chocobo Eater monsters from FFX to randomly come out of the ground or something to snatch yo Chocobos away/eat them/whatever lawls.

Caravans sound like a load of fun.