Palisade trouble

[Takiari]

you cannot extend from the sealed cornerpost, but you can still use the sealed cornerpost as the last cornerpost to have gate to, so you dont have to destroy it with a ram.

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N ... newly built cornerpost
S ... sealed cornerpost
C ... sub cornerpost
-- ... gate (2 spaces)

just start your new cornerpost 2 tiles away from the sealed one and build around to reach the sealed one and you will be fine.
having a ram around without a brickwall would only make it easier for raiders to destroy stuff.

I would definitely do that, unfortunately I thought of myself as a genius when, at the beginning of the game, I decided to make a base in between two walls (or hills. Or ridges. Or how do you call them) so that I could seal myself in with two separate palisades with a gate each. So I can not really use this method without going around the whole hill area (which I don't really want to because I have things right on the edges and I haven't researched exactly where palisades can or cannot be built). Looking at it now I don't think it is such a great idea, but I just want to go along with it until I die and make a better base in a new place anew.

Was the cornerpost on a claim? Doesn't sealing leave vandalism scents?

Yes, it does, but Takiari may not have ranging yet or not have the stats to see them.

Yup, cornerpost was on a claim, and yup, I don't have ranging yet. I wanted to make an alt for all the dangerous stuff.

you cannot extend from the sealed cornerpost, but you can still use the sealed cornerpost as the last cornerpost to have gate to, so you dont have to destroy it with a ram.

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C=============C
=             =
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C====N--S=====C

= ... wall sections
N ... newly built cornerpost
S ... sealed cornerpost
C ... sub cornerpost
-- ... gate (2 spaces)

just start your new cornerpost 2 tiles away from the sealed one and build around to reach the sealed one and you will be fine.
having a ram around without a brickwall would only make it easier for raiders to destroy stuff.

This is your best bet.

Here we need to figure out when to build stuff that has a cool down period to continue building to avoid other players making this that happened to you. Brickwalls, houses and I think mineholes too.

You can find out the setting times in the wiki and have to consider real time is not the same than in-game time.
http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Palisade

Also if you leave the started building in a sign post, the sign can be easily destroyed and you loose all work on materials placed inside.

Another thing to be considered is that this post instead of being sealed could have been used to continue the palisade making a pocket and leaving inside a ram that after the cool down period could have been used to destroy your other buildings. I try to start my walls far away from my buildings, as rams are difficult to move because the deteriorate and need to be fixed (with their own period of cool down).

At this stage of the game we have many players that own toons that can bash a palisade with out the need of a ram, so maybe your best option is to consider a brickwall, and thinking you allready have suffered this, maybe it would be wise to move and settle in another place, far from other players and far from rivers that are the main way of land transport.

I did look at the times, unfortunately I'm a bit too busy IRL right now to seriously manage my in-game time.

I don't understand how sealing a palisade makes a pocket for a ram? Could you expand on that?

I am working towards setting a brickwall, working on an alt with mining attributes. It will take a while before I'll be able to construct it though. I think I will not worry too much as it is my first time playing the game, haven't died yet so far. When I die though, i'll set up a base the proper way.

[Cranny]

I don't understand how sealing a palisade makes a pocket for a ram? Could you expand on that?

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Hey
I hate my bad english, I did not mean that by sealing a pali post whoever did this can make a pocket, I ment that instead of sealing it, as the post to be sealed needs to be ready to build, they could have enlarged the pali to make a pocket and afterwards seal all the posts, the one u made and the ones needed to close the pocket.
The expensive thing for building a pali and what takes time to dry is only the initial corner post, with the first post set it is only needed to chop some nearby trees and chip some stone to continue building, so in very little time anyone can have the pocket ready at almost no cost.

[Takiari]

I don't understand how sealing a palisade makes a pocket for a ram? Could you expand on that?

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Hey
I hate my bad english, I did not mean that by sealing a pali post whoever did this can make a pocket, I ment that instead of sealing it, as the post to be sealed needs to be ready to build, they could have enlarged the pali to make a pocket and afterwards seal all the posts, the one u made and the ones needed to close the pocket.
The expensive thing for building a pali and what takes time to dry is only the initial corner post, with the first post set it is only needed to chop some nearby trees and chip some stone to continue building, so in very little time anyone can have the pocket ready at almost no cost.

Oh, I see what you meant now! I guess I almost got lucky. No worries, your english is quite sufficient ^^