I always hated doing multistar runs with more hunters than thieves. I remember one time me and Kife and one other hunter took five lower 5* traders to Hotan and I didn't have third book fire nuke yet. That was the most fun I have ever had hunting.
About the route think of the traders and hunters. The traders were so low lvl in some cases that thieves could 1 hit them and their transport. And the longer the route more NPC for the hunter to kill and lvl job on.
Sure we could have gone a shorter route and the hunters could have had more fun. But this was not all about the hunters. The traders wanted EXP as well. And they only get it if they make it. Granted I was kinda hoping we would get some action. But either way is good.
Bakemaster wrote:I can almost guarantee you'd get murdered in a second.
I've heard huge viet guild doing trade run. I ran into a caravan full of lvl70 fully farmed chars with Sos/+7 weapons than I summoned monsters onto them. It was lots of fun running around and having ~7 pissed high levels chasing me (Got to stab a few of them on occasions) but then the fun ended when a fully farmed guy with a lvl64+7 SoS sword zerked and nuked me to death
PS: This trade run doesn't look as though as those viets looked. I used Lv70 blader at the time.
thanks for the comments. the run, while a total success, was less than exciting lol. other than the usual anxiety you always get while jobbing and waiting to be pwned, it was pretty laid-back, other than all the frequent DCs.