Not having to walk around your own place in case you want to go a certain direction can be QoL.
And with palisades the gates are not expensive.
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Granger
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Re: What's the difference between gate and visitor gate?
⁎ Mon Mar 22, 2010 ✝ Thu Jan 23, 2020
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tirioll
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Re: What's the difference between gate and visitor gate?
I can't understand what's the purpose of non-visitor gates? If somebody is chasing you in PvP, and you run towards your gates - it must be very hard to open gates, run in and close them in front of your opponent. Or is it not very hard? Better get knocked out outside of your walls than let them inside with no visitor... Also this means that I need to carry master (?) key with me all the time? Seems too risky. Or I misunderstand something.
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Sevenless
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Re: What's the difference between gate and visitor gate?
People have an "in only" airlock beside their Vgates. All the gates open inwards, so once it's closed inside you can't get out. Run in, if the person chooses to follow close the door. Now inside that airlock, you put a tiny house with a locked door.tirioll wrote:I can't understand what's the purpose of non-visitor gates? If somebody is chasing you in PvP, and you run towards your gates - it must be very hard to open gates, run in and close them in front of your opponent. Or is it not very hard? Better get knocked out outside of your walls than let them inside with no visitor... Also this means that I need to carry master (?) key with me all the time? Seems too risky. Or I misunderstand something.
Picking the lock slows the attacker down enough that you can de-aggro and hearth, and now they're stuck in your airlock.
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dageir
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Re: What's the difference between gate and visitor gate?
It Depends on future expansion plans.piggyqueen wrote:Not sure which to build, but thanks. Also would it be totally unnecessary to have a gate on each wall of a 50x50 area?

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loskierek
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Re: What's the difference between gate and visitor gate?
make a gate facing inwards and outwards next to each other and you can use slave key to go in and out. Also i have no visitor gates cause i am a hermit to the bone lul
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Agame
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Re: What's the difference between gate and visitor gate?
The only purpose for which the slave keys exist is that if someone KOs you and take your key, they can not use it to get inside your claim. You only enter by porting to your heart fire you built inside. If you have even one single door built in reverse, you are not protected anymore.loskierek wrote:make a gate facing inwards and outwards next to each other and you can use slave key to go in and out. Also i have no visitor gates cause i am a hermit to the bone lul
As a rule of thumb, everything that makes life easyer and less boring/grinding for players is a great idea. Everything that makes the game harder is crap coming from sadistic tendencies of Jorbtar helped by the few players with the same kind of disorders.Vigilance wrote:just remove midgets, they suck ass and serve no function besides annoying people.
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loskierek
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Re: What's the difference between gate and visitor gate?
i used to have a gate like this on w10 and never had an issue
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Sevenless
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Re: What's the difference between gate and visitor gate?
For anyone having trouble visualizing this:

Slave keys can get you into the airlock, but the main compound still only has doors leading out.

Slave keys can get you into the airlock, but the main compound still only has doors leading out.
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Ferinex
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Re: What's the difference between gate and visitor gate?
Why bother with the airlock? Why not just build the locked house outside your walls and have only visitor gates?
i guess they never miss huh
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loskierek
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Re: What's the difference between gate and visitor gate?
to make the assaulter heart back home instead of walking around your claim for hoursFerinex wrote:Why bother with the airlock? Why not just build the locked house outside your walls and have only visitor gates?