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You mean there is more than 1 type of jail?

Jail types

Miscellaneous jailbird gossip
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Introduction

What is a jail?

A room designed to trap raiders (and accompanying eq & keys)

I.e. There is no way to get out of the room back into the defense/maze.

However, jails in aardwolf are generally quite leaky. Most have:
   - An exit to Recall (standard clan jails)
   - Dummy doors (lead somewhere, but unopenable)
   - Jails leading to other jail rooms.
   - No exits at all.
   - ©1999 - poohbear

Types of jail

The "standard" jail

Locked door on east

Special characteristic:Unlocked by clan portal

Special characteristic:One-way to Temple of Mota
The linked jail

Do not appear to be jails as there are exits

But these exits lead to other jails

Mostly used for fooling jail-sitters.

Some consider this to be part of the maze
The jail with dummy doors

Normal clan defense room, except that only exit out is a locked door

The key exists, but is effectively unobtainable by a raider.

The door can either lead to a working room, the same room, or a jail room

Don't forget this door has to be 2-way.
No exits at all

Ah finally, a true jail. :P

Good luck to whoever ends up in here (raider,defender or clannie :)

Miscellaneous jail stuff

Heal rates & guards

The 2 options are: 1)Max damage 2)Min damage

Max damage = negative heals, underwater, and guards.
   - This is designed to wipe out jail sitters.

Min damage = essentially no room changes, possibly +ve heal and -ve mana rates.
   - Designed to keep raiders in jail longer, thus neutralizing them.

The current consensus (and this is close) is that Min Damage is better.
   - This is because it is more defender friendly.
How many jails?

Most clans have 1.

Some have 2, but usually not more.
   - A lot depends on maze design, but the main idea is to negate jailsitters

Multiple jails make defender CRs harder.


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