>The helpfile mentions opening doors.
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Yes, but there's a horrendous lag on closing doors. The difference is, when you send tells from the shadows, you learn Improved Hide up to 100% even on a low-int race in about 5-10 minutes. My only other way I am aware of to work on this skill is to open and close doors from the shadows, with about a 3 or so second lag on every close. That led to about 1 skill improvement in about 20 minutes, which was all kinds of painful for such a simple skill.

And Twist's recommendation on opening doors that are already open didn't seem to work.

I guess my real issue is I'm pretty sure my pfile was tagged for being a spammer, which I am sure will limit future RP/Immteraction opportunities. And I'm sorry I apparently spammed an imm that was randomly snooping me from my guild and all. But really, I was just using the game mechanics to master a skill the most efficient way possible, something that every serious character has to do a number of times in this game since the first age. There's no way you can do spamming skills IC, it's always going to be an OOC mechanism to get that all mighty skill up.

I don't know what kind of answer I am looking for, maybe I'm just OCD and it's silly to want to have a skill at 100%. It just seems like canceling the snoop on me and letting me do what I needed to do in the game while I was all alone in my guild would have been a better solution than using the freeze command and telling me I was violating rules of the game.