You are not representing the issue honestly.You have already "properly" defended the keep by beating back the enemy in the first place. Now you have to sit around for about 9 minutes spamming enough AOE at three entrances in the hopes you can insta-gib a stealther coming through?wargrimnir wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:41 am This is a stupid loophole (one person can reset a defense timer) that people expect GM's to "do something about", but we probably won't unless we're specifically online and observing this behavior in the moment and we see something actually exploitative being done. The last couple instances that we investigated over this behavior it was people sitting around AFK at a keep while one guy stealthed in and reset the timer by hitting a siege weapon. No one was on the walls or near the posterns to prevent it.
Defend your keep properly or move on without the defense tick. There's a main gate and two posterns where stealthers can get in. Stacking initiative and posting up at these locations will help detect them. Stealth doesn't block mines/daemons from going off. Stealth doesn't prevent PvP collision.
The loophole is unlikely to be changed any time soon as development focus is elsewhere, and to some degree if you're barely paying attention to a defense, it's not much of a defense anyway.
And even if you do guard the entrances AND sit by the siege and defend it there is absolutely nothing you can to do stop a stealther who is determined to tag the siege with one hit from resetting the whole thing. It doesn't take a certain amount of damage to reset off of siege it just takes any damage. I have literally punted away WH from siege as soon as they showed up but they were still able to tag it enough to reset things.
The absolute simplest solution is to despawn the outer siege once inner is down.