winterkiddi wrote:
moreover, the camel wil be a nice mark for those pc thiefs bc they usually use horse to keep in front of ur camel since they cant atk 1* traders..cz thiers speed is much more faster then ur camel.
Valid point but consider the alternative - a theif with a horse can still pop you. Heck, I could usually pop horses with my camel on Alps (takes good skills though ^_>)
Point being, less HP and faster is not better. If you are going to get popped, you are going to get popped, nothing you can do about that. Camels are better than horses for trades though. I've seen camels tank higher level npcs (and survive to town) because the owner had lots of pots. That is not possible on a horse because the damage stacks up faster due to less HP. I usually hope the trader I'm popping has a horse.
Of course, this is what I think and what I have personally seen
PS, your times are a bit off, horses move at 4m and camels at 3m. That would mean that a camel trip should take 1.3 times longer than a horse.
(If you want to see the math:
* If the trip is 400M, that means it takes 100 units of time for a horse
* After 100 units of time, the camel is only at 300M. The camel must go 100 more M, so that's 100 units of time / 3 ~ 33 units of time = 133 units of time.
133 units of time / 100 units of time = ~1.3
)
Even at a worse case of you trave 2x slower than a horse, that means you profit will be
120K (60k per trip camel) as opposed to
135k per horse trip - meaning you can take 3 1way trips on a horse in the same time it takes a came to do 2 1 way trips (~rounding since itd really be like 3.5 horse 1 way trips but that doesnt count 1/2 way there)
So, what's that 15k in the grand scheme of things? Nothing really when you look at the HP differences and the ability to withstand attacks on the way to/from town.