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Ottar
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Now, instead of going on a longish rant again, I would just like to point out one common mistake people love to make when camping milegates:
Opening Doors Unneccessarily.
When you don’t absolutely have to go through that milegate, Do Not Open Doors. I would even go as far as to suggest you just climb up the wall and jump to the other side if you are just going to suiciding at PK anyway. The jump won’t kill you.
Q: Why is opening doors bad?
A: Stealthers.
Camping milegates actually enables your force to stop stealthers. If doors are open, stealthers can get through. Even when someone is standing right between the open doors and spams autotarget, they can get through by just waiting for someone open the door for you. If they have to open the door for themselves, they will have to stop before the door and then they can be detected and killed.
How it works is this - relative movement speed between a stealther and a person trying to find him makes huge difference in chances of detecting the stealther. Detecting a reasonably highly stealth specced person while moving through im at skald speed is impossible. Even just moving through him is pretty much impossible. You have to either stand on the same spot or move at the same direction (relative speed between characters is small).
Forcing them to open the doors by themselves creates pretty much ideal situation for getting stealthers - they stand still, you know they are there and can stand on top of them. Scratch the stealther. If the doors are already open, they can run through them and nothing much can be done about it, if you dont have a shadowblade sitting at those doors.
For the same reason, breaking the milegate doors in not an especially bright idea.
Ottar
Opening Doors Unneccessarily.
When you don’t absolutely have to go through that milegate, Do Not Open Doors. I would even go as far as to suggest you just climb up the wall and jump to the other side if you are just going to suiciding at PK anyway. The jump won’t kill you.
Q: Why is opening doors bad?
A: Stealthers.
Camping milegates actually enables your force to stop stealthers. If doors are open, stealthers can get through. Even when someone is standing right between the open doors and spams autotarget, they can get through by just waiting for someone open the door for you. If they have to open the door for themselves, they will have to stop before the door and then they can be detected and killed.
How it works is this - relative movement speed between a stealther and a person trying to find him makes huge difference in chances of detecting the stealther. Detecting a reasonably highly stealth specced person while moving through im at skald speed is impossible. Even just moving through him is pretty much impossible. You have to either stand on the same spot or move at the same direction (relative speed between characters is small).
Forcing them to open the doors by themselves creates pretty much ideal situation for getting stealthers - they stand still, you know they are there and can stand on top of them. Scratch the stealther. If the doors are already open, they can run through them and nothing much can be done about it, if you dont have a shadowblade sitting at those doors.
For the same reason, breaking the milegate doors in not an especially bright idea.
Ottar
