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[Alvarez]

yeah but they dont order the goods, the caravans travel in hopes that they sell anything to anyone. if i got the caps you got the goods, thats the law of the wasteland.

And if they actually order 500 pieces of Jet from NewReno? Besides, the caravans can't carry JUST random shit. Something is always ordered by someone for CAPS.
The traders won't use their services anymore, if the caravans give out their stuff for foreigners, that's the law of free economics, if there's competition around.
Tho, of course, the caravan leader won't hand out the ordered cargo for the first random dude with caps, but he will have a separate stash with items which could be traded to Wastelanders (random loot from raiders, caps, medicine)

[GroeneAppel]

actually some caravans just travel around with goods selling things here and there. While other should just bring orders of items (and sell nothing). But I think you should be able to trade with caravans. why else would they bother to stop for you?  

[co plutonyum]

Caravans main goal is to move from one city to another city, not to go in the desert to trade. That's why, imo, they shouldn't even trade their goods with you.

But wouldn't it be more entertaining and encouraging? Imho, city vendors can hardly provide enough supplies and caps for us wastelanders. But it's not only about that. It would give that "Caravan" encounter a literal meaning that it deserves.

[corosive]

u know in fallout 1-2 caravan merchants sold stuff, which you could loot if you killed them... their sole purpose however was to trade around the wasteland and make someone a lot of caps... so stopping to trade to a wastelander was a great way for them to make money by charging you more then you would normally pay for certain items, in other words they ripped you off.

Merchants need to carry items to sell, i've often found myself as a blue suit with some random crap rdy to trade to a merchant only to find that she had nothing. And as long as you couldn't loot their fancy shit it would be balanced, if not then i would spend my days killing caravans lol

but they need to sell random ammo and stimpacks! how many times have you wished a caravan would buy your crappy low level guns you just looted for some stims? Everytime you need a stimpack and you run into em'!

we g2 make this work man caravans are useless except for lowering your karma lol

[Jeoshua]

Maybe if they carried trade goods of some sort, like fruit and fibers and brahman skins.

[corosive]

hmm im thinking something a bluesuit can benefit from really quick for his flint, ore, gunpowder, wasteland loot lol etc.

they should carry random low tier equipment and ammo + meds (antidote, stims or healing powder, jet, rad-x) lol maybe even some explosives? the old school merchants almost always had dynamite or plastic explosives which you could buy then use to blow up the whole caravan muhahahahhaha

[gordulan]

those were the days.