Requesting a player ran caravan mod

[Jones813]

To explain what I mean, similar to how Old Man Stockton operates the 3 caravans out of Bunker Hill, Trashcan Carla, Cricket, and Lucas Miller, I'm looking for a mod that lets the player hire and utilize their own caravan runner(s). In my mind, what the mod would do is let you build your own caravan station in a few select settlements, Sanctuary and The Drive-In as examples. Once you hire a caravaner (some kind of quest), that caravaner will function a lot like a provisioner but instead of only going to one place, they'll make a loop among all the preset locations (part of the quest? Can't start the caravan until all the locations are secured and the workbenches unlocked), ending in Diamond City before heading back to their assigned caravan station.

 

The point of the caravans is the player drops items they want to sell into the caravan station, the caravaner picks them up the next time they are in the settlement and makes the route selling your items. When they return to their base of operations, the caravan station you built, they deposit all the caps they earned, minus their payment (because they have to be paid), and pick up any new items in the station. If you see the caravaner out anywhere, you can trade with them like any settler and give them more stuff to sell or take any caps they may have already gotten or anything else they have if you decide you want it. What I'm thinking is similarly to how food and water are periodically generated by crops and water pumps in settlements, objects are periodically 'sold' by the caravaner on their route, maybe 1-2 items every 2 game hours, removing 'sold' items from the caravaner's inventory and generating caps based on what item was 'sold' and the caravaner's barter skill. The higher their barter skill, the more caps they get per item but also the higher cut they keep. Caravaners with higher barter skills also have a better chance of selling expensive items when an item is sold so what that means is a low skill caravaner will take a smaller cut of the sales but won't get quite as many caps per item sold and will have a lower chance of selling expensive items.

 

I wish I knew how to do the scripting and stuff necessary to do this. I'd do it myself if I could.

[SolidSnakeMan]

I do that personally with the "personal Caravan mod" You can create like 6 different creatures as a pack animal...even an animated gorilla. I walk when transporting the merch aswell. Its pretty suspenseful honestly when I have mods that kill me in four to five shots and vice versa for enemies. you can also craft grenades that shock animals and turn them to a follower pack animal.

Edited September 8, 2017 by SolidSnakeMan