House kiling

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Good morning,
A friend of mine helped me out and I am in my first big house, a large patio. He ran me thru basic home security of the place including making sure the patio doors were locked in addition to the front doors. We got a couple animals trapped and I started my provoke macro, happy to finally be in something bigger than my old small house. Of course, checked first thing as soon as I woke up and someone had killed me about 5 minutes after I turned the monitor off (awesome!). After scanning previous forum posts on home security, I am still scratching my dead how I was killed. Everything I saw in previous threads indicated I was standing in a "safe zone" for things like meteor swarm.

Here are the exact circumstances-
was macroing in center of the front room of the patio (exactly where I would stand to macro in my old small)
was not macroing magery or anything else that I could damage myself with
all exterior and interior doors were closed and locked
neither one of the animals inside the house I was provoking was killed
character that killed me was Yeppers

Any info would be greatly appreciated. It took all the excitement out of finally getting a big house coming back to the ghost screen on the first night of ownership.
On a side note- killing people that are macroing is seriously pathetic.

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Screenshot of your house and surrounding area?
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You probably live near water or a dip in the terrain
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Will take screen shot when I get home.

How does water/terrain dip come in to play in these type of scenarios? Not being a smart ass, genuinely curious.

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Soma wrote:You probably live near water or a dip in the terrain
I think so too. From within 10 squares he could have killed you with purple pots either from water, or an elevated space.
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I do live next to the water. Are you saying if I live next to the water someone can just cruise by on a boat and kill me with purple pots?
What kind of loophole is this!?

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Nemo the bard wrote:I do live next to the water. Are you saying if I live next to the water someone can just cruise by on a boat and kill me with purple pots?
What kind of loophole is this!?
That is exactly what I'm saying. I live next to the water as well and I too had the very same problem. Next time try to macro as far away from water as possible - at least 10 squares, better a little more as pots have explosion radius. I lost my mare this way too. It has to do with the infamous "LOS bug", but is era accurate I hear and, thus not considered a thing to be fixed. We just have to suck it up and live with it. Adapt and prosper! :-D
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Really brings down the market on waterfront property!

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Sounds like I will have to park a boat out there.
That seems like complete crap, being able to throw pots INSIDE a house.
Not saying it's not true, just crap that it is capable of being done at all.

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if you want, I know of an open Patio spot on grass. PM me if you want to move.
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A boat will do nothing agaist being house killed.
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My guess was that if I were to park a boat on the side of the house with water it would create that 10 square barrier for exploding pots.

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It has nothing to do with being on the water, its about the dips
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I also didn't know about that, I'll try. :)
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