SiO2 wrote:it can be aggored via the gate.
True. This used to be a lot worse and most PvP implications were only indirectly patched by the change to Visitor Gates that makes them impassable to characters in combat. (Friend died - HF outdoors, accidentally scented*, a vigilante simply aggro'd and walked inside through a gate to offline kill while he was asleep.
Worth noting that the following has NOT been patched out:
(There's technically, kind of a solid game logic going on - when you steal from KO'd Hearthling, you commit crime against Hearthling, not the claim, and thus Visitor status is irrelevant. Notably similar edge case was patched - this applied to Hearth Fires as well, because they also have innate crime protection.)
*He had criminal acts on when he killed a boar, it died on someone's claim and got instantly Red-handed for picking it up.