charwo Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 New game, trying to learn Caravan. Ringo gives my Courier a deck for the first time, I can't seem to set up a deck the game will accept, somi hit randomize deck, and off I go! But now on the bid stage I can't do anything but discard cards until I have to forfiet! For face cards this makes sense, as they mod bids, not make them, but I got a 8 to his 7 and I can't select the card, only discard it. And so on until I have no deck left. What's going on here? I havent heard of a bug like that, but this has made Caravan unplayable since I got the game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charwo Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm exasperated and can't make sense of why this is happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charwo Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 Still needing help with Caravan... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricMessiah Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Google Search "how to play" caravan "new vegas" and sift through the pages. Video tutorial came up first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charwo Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 I've watched one of these videos. Fellow was a real mouth breather too. It did not answer my question. I can expand information from media, I cannot learn conceptual operations. If I can't learn poker from a video tutorial, I won't be learning caravan from a video either. I need this specific question answered because I have never been able get this stage and no media seems to adress this specific issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaranth Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Caravan rules are kind of messy and hard to grasp. At the start of the game you have to start all three caravans before you can proceed - meaning you have to have a numerical card starting each pile. If it won't accept your deck, you probably don't have enough cards - The minimum deck size is 30. Once the game starts in earnest - you've all started all three 'caravans' - you can only go one direction or another. If you start with a nine then place a seven on it, you can't then play an eight on the seven - you'd have to play a smaller card. The positioning can be confusing too: Each card has a lateral play spot for placing face cards and jokers, and then a descending play spot for placing counter cards. But they're not precise, so it can be hard to tell which one your actually on. I found this extremely helpful when I was trying to figure it all out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charwo Posted November 15, 2012 Author Share Posted November 15, 2012 It's a bug of somekind, vanilla or mod. I cannot play the third card of the opening bid regardless of suite, deck or value, and must discard until the deck is exhausted. It has been this way from the first time I tried caravan. I have no idea what to do about it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaranth Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 It's a bug of somekind, vanilla or mod. I cannot play the third card of the opening bid regardless of suite, deck or value, and must discard until the deck is exhausted. It has been this way from the first time I tried caravan. I have no idea what to do about it though. Are you running a Vanilla game? If not, try restarting with only the base game and official DLCs and see if that fixes it. I've not run across that issue myself. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charwo Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 Why on earth would anyone play a Bethesda game vanilla if they could possibly help it? Now, I can't play vanilla, I'd probably have to reinstall to do that. Caravan isn't remotely that important to me. But reading the Caravan FAQ, it doesn't match what I am getting, and frankly, the few hours I played vanilla it was like this. I might be ok after the bidding round but I've never gotten past that point. So I get a deck of 50, then we play and my deplorable cards only number 42. Where in the Hell did my other eight cards go? And then it won't let me make opening bids! The FAQ says nothing about this. The cards are all Tops, of all suits and numbers. And I can't deploy them. Sometimes it won't let me deploy a single bid. I will go 42 discards in a row without ever getting an opportunity to deploy the first card. Please help. This game doesn't make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigojulze Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 I am also having this problem. It is incredibly annoying to try and figure out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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