A16 Prisoner, Caravans, and more of them.

[boates]

I've made a few Caravans after playing A16 for a while and just wanted to post a few different suggestions.
Firstly it's annoying that I can not designate where the colonist go to form a caravan and that this area will always be outside the home zone... It makes packing difficult and managing prisoners atrocious. Prisoners will wait infinitely as long as a caravan is being formed... but if it stops being formed for some reason, they all suddenly get the idea to break and run. As well as when you return from a caravan and suddenly you have to scramble to get all your prisoners back into the prison barracks, or they'll try and run... eventually. I feel you should be allowed to just designate where your caravan will depart and return to. It honestly makes more sense for them to pack inside the home zone.
Secondly, while traveling you should be given the option to set camp. This halts your caravan for a while but allows you to do some crucial things like stop someone from bleeding out, which there is currently no way to do unless you decide to randomly attack some area just to heal up (Which I've done before). It should generate a small ambush sized map where you're also able to forage for a little bit of supplies and then can leave when your ready. It should be limited to once per day and only last a couple of hours or so, to make sure players don't just spam create new maps for supplies. Or maybe only happen at night when you're not moving.
Thirdly, there should be more prisoners in Rimworld that aren't in your colony. I personally think now that Rimworld is a much more open game. You should be able to find colonies that just have a prison network. I rarely ever see slaving caravans with prisoners, and haven't seen them in any of the towns I've traveled to... If you have the money there should be some places where you can reliably buy people.
This is all however my opinion, hopefully it connects with you if your reading it.

[RemingtonRyder]

Caravan healing is something which isn't implemented yet but will be in the future.