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    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?

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It passed out of you visable range.  Your diplo range on the map.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dwrwd Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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
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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.
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