Anti-Exploit Measures for Caravan (Can I have it?)

[Neko_Yanagi]

I have to blame this entire argument on how caravans use to be pre-patch. You would NEVER have enough ppl to actually complete the caravan by just standing around and talking to the npc. You would have been there for days waiting. The only thing one could do to ensure that they could complete caravans would be to shout for it, gather a full pt, and set out. That way guaranteed that you would have enough people for the caravan runs and it was never a problem.

Times change, and that wasn't how caravans were intended to work. I realize that this has now become a severe issue with many, but you have to look at it as a behest now... You can't gather a full pt in town and do caravans for hrs like you use to. It's not how it was meant to work.

Leechers are a whole different story. They sucked in behests and they suck in a caravan escort. SE knew what a problem it was in behests, so they really should have come up with a way to remedy that before the implementation of caravan escorts. However, the flaw does lie with the users, since they are the ones who are d-bags and leeching. And don't tell me that it's so hard not to exploit because the opportunity to do so is so easily available. Empathy can be an amazing deterrent if you just use it...