Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-50.49.156.71-20191113223545

so the idea in this suggestion is to add more random encounters like invasions and traveling traders into the game, also because I’m an anon I will fully allow another person to flesh out the suggestion more in a separate post.

So a random encounter would essentially be like an invasion or traveling merchant and the goal would be to make your trip around middle earth more eventful and have more things to do. Banner protection would probably bar combat focused random encounters from spawning, as would most inhabited structures

Some sample random encounters

Call for aid You would receive a message from an NPC of an allied faction for help, a group of 1-10 NPCs of that faction would be under attack by double the amount of enemies, if you intervene and save the allies then you could talk to any of the allied NPCs and either A, receive a reward in silver or items or B, if you are pledged and have the alignment you could hire the survivors for free. More likely to happen in areas near borders with hostile NPCs and in areas that have been conquered by an opposing faction, cannot happen in peaceful areas such as the shire unless it is on a border or if it was conquered

Caravan You encounter a caravan with multiple traders, these traders can sell items from most merchant lists, depending on what area you are in, with traders having a higher chance to sell higher quality items that are native to the faction they are in the territory of (in Gondor they have a higher chance to sell items sold by Gondor traders) the caravan also has A blacksmith and a group of guards, unaligned NPCS with low quality equipment that protect the traders from any attack, with a random distribution of archers and melee soldiers. You might find the caravan under attack by bandits or by a native or opposing faction, if you save them you get a discount, if you help kill them the traders drop some of the goods they were selling and lots of silver. You could also find a wealthy caravan with more guards, traders and a guard captain, who can sell the guards to you for a medium sum in gold but with no alignment cost, though the amount of guards he can hire out is limited. You can also find a faction caravan that has purely faction traders and with faction NPCs as guards, these are the only kind of caravan in places such as Mordor and Angmar, they represent internal and state sanctioned trade, normal caravans are private enterprises. This event only appears on roads

Battles, Battles come in 3 variants and are the most simple encounter, simply put it is a group of opposing invasion events, they come in 3 forms

Skirmish, 1 invasion event for each of the 2 factions Conflict, 4 invasion events, 2v2 or 3v1 Set piece battle. 6 events 3v3, 4v2 or 5v1 Happen more often in areas where invasions are common That’s all I have for now 