misterious disappearing caravan

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   While browsing the map around my town in Middle Kingdom, I noticed a very fast moving caravan passing by. Since I thought it could be sending reinforcements to a city I have a tiff with, I started following it on the map.
The caravan, instead, kept moving until it almost reached the NW corner of the map then suddenly disappeared before my eyes.

It disappeared at approx -168|717, in a place where there was no city or camp.

Has anyone else seen anything like this happen? How would you explain it?

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Dwrwd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Greenhorn Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Status: Offline Points: 69	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dwrwd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: misterious disappearing caravan Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 21:08
	While browsing the map around my town in Middle Kingdom, I noticed a very fast moving caravan passing by. Since I thought it could be sending reinforcements to a city I have a tiff with, I started following it on the map. The caravan, instead, kept moving until it almost reached the NW corner of the map then suddenly disappeared before my eyes. It disappeared at approx -168\|717, in a place where there was no city or camp. Has anyone else seen anything like this happen? How would you explain it?

Legoman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Greenhorn Joined: 20 Nov 2011 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 73	Post Options Post Reply Quote Legoman Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 21:28
	It passed out of you visable range. Your diplo range on the map.

Dwrwd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Greenhorn Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Status: Offline Points: 69	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dwrwd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 22:46
	@ Legoman, thanks for replying but you got it wrong. I was scrolling the map view to follow the caravan. When it disappeared it was already way, way past my diplo visibility radius. In fact I just calculated the distance with Illytools at ~650 squares. My diplo visibility is just 11 squares

Rill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Postmaster General Player Council - Geographer Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 6903	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rill Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 22:47
	Caravans are not limited by diplo visibility. It's possible that whoever was sending or receiving the caravans used enough prestige at that moment to instantly complete the operation. That seems the most likely explanation. Or it could be that your map scrolling couldn't keep up with the caravan speed or that you accidentally scrolled past it.