Why not just make them lootable by default?

logistics...

Thats supposed to be 100's of hours of work being transported in a convoy/caravan.
So the battlespike part is to make sure a random group roaming cant take all the shit instantly.
You'd have to get spikes...which gives the caravan time to buy gear at the local market to fight you again.

Ofc, with current pop its just annoying...but

logistics...

Thats supposed to be 100's of hours of work being transported in a convoy/caravan.
So the battlespike part is to make sure a random group roaming cant take all the shit instantly.
You'd have to get spikes...which gives the caravan time to buy gear at the local market to fight you again.

Ofc, with current pop its just annoying...but

It's not just annoying because of population. It's annoying because it's inconsistent. If you kill a guy and mount lives you can open it without the need of battlespikes. When you kill the mount, you suddenly need battlespikes. This is stupid.

It should allow you to tame the mount, but then the chest should drop from it. That requires battlespikes to break in.
Or
make chest accessible just like someones mount is when it's still alive. This or that, not a mix of two. Simple logic.

Now it makes no sense. As is said - it's inconsistent.

I like the battlespike system. Has created some interesting fights and moments.

If battle spikes were some rare commodity, yeah sure but really carrying 10-15 spikes when doing villages and roaming is probably a good idea and not hard to maintain.

If battle spikes were some rare commodity, yeah sure but really carrying 10-15 spikes when doing villages and roaming is probably a good idea and not hard to maintain.

yep, Battlespikes can be so useful in many ways.

If battle spikes were some rare commodity, yeah sure but really carrying 10-15 spikes when doing villages and roaming is probably a good idea and not hard to maintain.

yep, Battlespikes can be so useful in many ways.

That will take more than 10-15 i only had like 320 hp back then so bring at least 5 more