Template:Caravan PvP incentives and risks

There will be incentives and risks for both caravan attackers and defenders.^[1]^[2] These will be tested and refined during the alpha and beta testing phases.^[3]

There is a level of risk that comes with the attacker. We have progression paths that exist for bandits and that exists for defenders; and if you choose to opt into a caravan attack- you sign up for that attack and you fail that attack- it is detrimental to your path of progression down the bandit area. That's one thing: Two is of course you have gear decay. You have degradation that can be suffered if you die. That is a cost. And then you also have a reputation; and if your reputation precedes you when you want to transit goods across the world; and you see somebody who's doing it and you want to participate as a defender or a participant, they might say hey screw you, you were just murdering my people last week and I saw that you're like on the top of the bandit list for killing caravans. So it has repercussions in the sense that it locks you out of certain player groups. It provides decay to your armor. It has deleterious effects on your progression, and the attacking- and the bandit progression of caravan attacks or defense.^[1] – Steven Sharif

A highwayman system tracks a player's performance in caravan PvP.^[4]^[1]^[2]^[3]
- This records successful or failed defenses and attacks and provides rewards that scale up over time based on the player's history.^[4]^[1]^[2]^[3]