I thought the amount of cargo were increasing the chances of being ambushed, i didn't knew they were putting the whole ambush party on steroids.
I thought only fame did that.
I decided to get a bit of time alone, sent my minions army to town.
While travelling, i was ambushed.
Was a bit hard, i had to teleport several times, but my powerfull magic dart finally destroyed the enemies.
Then i went back to my storage house and using the carpentry skill i built 250 barrels (no idea i had so many materials), it leveled up several time the Carpentry skills in the process.
I went to Vernis and could sold only 50 as the cargo merchant didn't have that much money (and i didn't invested on it)
So i decided to go to Derphy instead of having to wait for another day for the merchant to get more gold.
As i expected, i was ambushed, i teleported immediately, and landed near a border, i considered the fight wouldn't be worth it, so i moved 1 tile toward the border
And saw 5 members of the ambush party moving close to me and killing me ...
All of that while i only took a single turn of mine.
Considering they were at the middle of the map as usual, and i was in the border, what they did was then playing at least easily 50 turns if not more while i was playing only 1 turn
I simply never saw this before, and looking on the log, i saw they were a bit more than level 50 , the same kind of level they were from the ambush before , but while they were fast and were playing a few turns while i was playing one, it was -nowhere- near close to the insane kind of "fast" they were.
I don't know if it's something new to Elona+ or if it has always been like this (i thought their power was only dependant on fame, and in the wiki i didn't read anything about your cargo boosting their attributes), because i never used the carpentry skill before now to build that much cargo.
So in case you're trying to make easy money with the Carpentry skill (barrel needs only a skill of 8 , and material that are numerous in the dungeons spots) , make sure your world map travels with the cargo is very, very short to reduce your chance of getting that kind of encounter
Because high powered ambush party at high fame can be hard , but high powered ambush party on steroid because you travel with nearly 2 hundred barrels is overkill.
I wish there was a Dwarf Fortress-like Arena , i really would have liked to see one of those silly overpowered ambush members against one of the overpowered south bosses .
From what i see if they're able to have so many dozen of turns for one of mine (i'm speed 133) , i'm not sure the south boss guy would really stand a chance.