UO Second Age

> Gate for strategic strikes.


Gating into a "hot" area is a bad idea. On the "hot" side, 6 or so
pk-types, a mixed group of warriors and mages, get to see a hostile gate
for warning. Surround gate, so that each person through can't get out
of the way, thus blocking the gate for the next (of course, those people
that attempt to move through the gate simultaneously do make it through
together, but rarely more than 2). Mage-type dispels the gate on the
"hot" side to prevent retreats. Those 6 pk-types get to kill each
person through the gate one by one, interrupting attempts at
teleporting/recalling away, easily taking on as many opponents without
taking a single casualty.

You want a strategic strike? Give everybody recall runes marked in a
spread pattern on one screen. Everybody recalls simultaneously. No
gate showing up to warn, nobody blocks each other, and everybody gets
there at the same time.

>Ok. So I have an NPC or two in tow. They follow. I gate to
>location. When the gate (travel) opens, I lead the NPCs away from the
>gate. Then I run toward the gate, so I'll be the first one thru.
>Yet like 75% of the time, The NPCs go thru before I do, and they just
>sit in the gate. I can't go thru. I can't recall, I can't gate. The
>NPC just sits there blocking the location.

1) Sometimes you open a gate, step into it, see your escortees
disappear into it, wait for the change of scenerey, then get
bumped _back_ outside the original gate. The escortees stay
on the other side, and you can't step back into the gate. You
can't even recall to the other side, as they generally are
standing on your rune spot.

Feel free to hate the people loading up on escortees... But.. SIGH (loudly)
I AM going through the gate first -- how the hell else would I get in..

Happens with me gating them.
They go through, I get lagged and arrive afterwards, but they are stood on
the gate, so I constantly pop back to where I started off from... Most
annoying.

the bazookas wrote:Strange that my brother and I both have no recollection of this, however. I would think that this kind of thing is exactly the kind of thing you would remember, too, since it is almost certainly tied to you dying at very inopportune moments on at least a few occasions.

Could it be that some servers had their gate mechanics a little different than others??