First off i'm going to start by saying is there anyway this could be fixed? I don't know all the technical stuff so that's why i'm asking. Second does anyone have any ideas on how it can be fixed?

Anyway, it's a big problem in my opinion. Now before you comment saying "Stfu noob" or "stop whining" I ask for only people who actually have experience towering to only comment. Anyone's opinion who probably has never even been in a tower and are the "SPAR>TOWER NOOBS" type, please I beg of you to not comment.

Now let me finally explain why it's a problem lol. Someone standing in front of the door that leads to the flag room while having there chat up causes extremely long delay. You can literally stand there for almost a minute blocking. It's unfair and people who do it should at the very least be warped and warned. The other day while my guild was attacking sardon we kept getting the flag low but then this chat blocker comes down and turns on his chat making it nearly impossible to get in the flag room. Honestly sardon is the easiest tower to defend and idiots are ruining it with there lag/chat block.

This pretty much concludes it, please let me know you're opinion in a calm manner if you have experienced with towering.  

It's been like this since towers came out; never really thought about(lag blocking wise) only thing i can think of is having open planned forts where there is no places to block, but doubt that would happen now lol  

Another note: While we were attacking and the guild was chat blocking the door there was an admin warping everywhere cause we saw the invisible 3. It was overhead chat not guild so you could clearly see it. Of course nothing was done, not even a damn warp.

Posted by Gricey

It's been like this since towers came out; never really thought about(lag blocking wise) only thing i can think of is having open planned forts where there is no places to block, but doubt that would happen now lol

Maybe widen sards doors. Like allow enough space for 2 people to get through the door at once in both the hallway and flag room entrance. You could still stay in the center and block but this would help a bit I think. Maybe even widen to 2.5-3 characters space.  

Blocking can't be removed because lags are even caused by opening your menu/ a profile. And writing can't be disabled while being at a tower, guess I don't have to explain why. But most of the time lags/speed is determinded by your Device, means older Device >> slower>> needs longer until you're hit-able again. I guess the only way to evade this is to edit the levels, especially the entries.  

last i checked, door blocking was not allowed. Yes i've noticed an increase in players using there chat lag (or using there guild chat, so it's not as ovbious) to lame/cheat to get a tower, players are also doing it in spar, after they get a hit, they throw up there chat bubble to elongate a match. I doubt that this could be fixed, but we can hope

Posted by Prynce

Blocking can't be removed because lags are even caused by opening your menu/ a profile. And writing can't be disabled while being at a tower, guess I don't have to explain why. But most of the time lags/speed is determinded by your Device, means older Device >> slower>> needs longer until you're hit-able again. I guess the only way to evade this is to edit the levels, especially the entries.

my account is an ipad2. i can have menus and profiles open without it effecting my latency at all.  

Perhaps if a feature is added to all forts (except Snowtown, Castle and York) where being at the top of the flag room while speaking makes your character like a saint but still able to receive sword hits. And for lag blocking, I'm not sure how this could work but maybe a ping detector that can be added than when it reaches a certain latency the player is also able to be passed through.  

Well, then you're lucky to own an iPad2, not everyone on Graal does. :p  

At the very least a rule should be enforced that make's it bannable again cause everyone gets away with it now, even when admins see it they just watch.  

Was it not you saying in another thred yesterday, that Sardons is fine and should not be changed?  

Posted by Craftz1

Was it not you saying in another thred yesterday, that Sardons is fine and should not be changed?

I made another post on that thread about this. It's not the towers problem it's the idiots who abuse it. It's the easiest tower to hold, people are being selfish by lag blocking to keep it. If people can't defend it fairly, then yes some sort of change needs to be made.  

Posted by GotenGraal

It's fine, I honestly wish all towers were changed back, I liked when they were all hard to take. Sardons is the only tower that's a challenge to get and when you have it you can actually defend it low. Other towers quanity defense is favored which I hate.

seems like a bigger challenge with it still in place.

But I do agree chat/lag blocking should be banned but again people can just stand at the door and not sword and still take a bit to get them out.  

Posted by Santa Claus

seems like a bigger challenge with it still in place.

But I do agree chat/lag blocking should be banned but again people can just stand at the door and not sword and still take a bit to get them out.

You can definately tell the difference of someone just blocking by doing nothing or some blocking with guild chat or lag on purpose.  

It's incredibly annoying. Lag blocking can't be fixed, but fixing chat block is easy: make the time in which you recover from a hit the same as if you weren't using chat.  

I don't want this thread to die, something definately needs to be done to fix this so terrible guilds like Xclusive and Getsuga actually have to take and hold towers fairly.  

We been dealing with chat blockers since the towers were adding in classic.

Sardon has been the same ever since but now the flag is at 75.

Maybe find a way to get that chat blocker out of the space. I learned that if you throw a bomb a bit to the right of the door it will knock the people out the way.
If they chat block at the door I hit them back and chat block their door.