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Thread: Hmm, a TEF made it so I couldn't enter our PA hall
It is not a bug; that is the way it is supposed to work. The fact that it was a PA hall is not really the issue. It would have been that way no matter what building you tried to enter. People were exploiting private buildings by ambushing others then running inside a building that was delcared private, which prevented the person who was attacked from retaliating. Thus to prevent this kind of griefing, they made it so that if you have a TEF, you cannot enter a building until it wears off. Because of the nature of the exploit, this could not be changed to exclude PA halls because PA halls can be declared private and could be used this same way.
Overt vs. Covert or Neutral is not the issue. If that were the case, then overt players would never be able to enter any buildings. In all likelihood, the overt Imp to whom you referred likely also had a TEF at the time.
Right after this change, there were unintended consequences. For instance, in some dungeons, people would attack an NPC and immediately get tossed out of the dungeon. Also, my partner traded with an overt, picked up the TEF from the trade and got ejected from the building they were in. Now, they have made some changes so that you do not get ejected from a building by fighting an NPC, but I do not know if they have fixed it so that trading with or healing someone does not eject you if you pick up a TEF by doing that.
At any rate, do not look for them to make the change you suggest because a PA hall would be the kind of place that this exploit would be likely to occur.
