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Hi,

If anyone's keen I think a really popular mod would be the ability to save caravan templates. I.e.

Template 1 = Quest Team
Pawn 1 - High shooting/melee
Pawn 2 - Decent attack/medical skills
Pawn 3 - Decent attack/mining skills
Pack Animal 1
Pack Animal 2
50 x Simple Meals
10 x Herbal Medicine
3 x Bedrolls
1 x Tent

Template 2 - Mining team
Pawn 1 - High mining skills
Pawn 2 - High mining skills
Pack animal 1
Pack animal 2
50 x Food

Basically the idea being you could save these templates for easy caravan formation, obviously not having the resources or pawn/animal would need to be accounted for but it would definitely make forming caravans a lot more enjoyable.

Looks like some good changes, I'll play through a bit more and offer more feedback however...

After loading it up to take a look at the caravan forming options. I like the new interface details, very handy info, but to be honest  I was pretty underwhelmed about the caravan forming interface itself. I was kind of expecting something like being able to save templates based on this update having a big overhaul to caravans in general.

One of the common actions I usually do (and I'm sure most others do as well): -

1. Make a caravan with the same guys (good shooting/melee skills), the same amount of food (~5 days worth), some medical supplies + modded items and send them to a nearby event like a item stash, rescue etc.
2. Form a mining crew (with similar supplies) to get resources that are not available on your settlements map anymore.
3. Form a trading caravan with 2 guards my best negotiator and some burden animals.

It's fairly painful having to re-select the same people and same basic stuff every single time for the various scenario's and I often forget to grab something that would go with a caravan of that type every time while I'm adding all the other stuff thats not part of my basic template.

TLDR: I was hoping with this major update to caravan's that templates might actually be a thing to make using them for varius things less painful.