by animary » Sat Nov 08, 2025 12:49 pm
As for only having visitor gates (no more "normal" gates), I've long suspected the devs stay up at night devising new ways to get us killed.
With only visitor gates, you are working outside your pali and a bear runs up. You cannot hearth away, you cannot run into the safety of your pali, you cannot outrun the bear, you aren't strong enough to fight the bear ..... so just stand there and die. (A simple solution if you just must eliminate normal gates is to allow any resident of that claim to run through a visitor gate if attacked.)
And if, as some players request, you could again bash palis by hand, there will be no need for a pali at all as it will be no defence against anything. Then each world will last no more than a month as it will be ruled by those whose enjoyment of this game stems solely from running around trashing everything, and everyone else tires of this and quits.