Question for imms:
As far as I understand both areas are closed. Any feedback on when us mortals will be allowed in?:)

I don't have an ETA on a re-opening of Hell. I get distracted by shiny things, which is why I have worked on other things as well. The Plane of Shadow is turning out nicely, though.

I don't see how that would hurt anything. It's a cool area too.

>I don't see how that would hurt anything. It's a cool area
>too.

You misspelled that, you meant to write, "I don't see how that would hurt anything. It's got lots of cool equ I want!!"

Seriously, though. Gear is a big part of it, but, the area has other nice uses, for me at least.

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But, it has nothing to do with the bull. Occasionally, with certain characters builds, I've found it a useful area for practicing in the later ranks.

I don't know if or when I'll ever get around to revamping the Tower to where I'm happy with it being permanently open again, but I opened it as a limited-time-special for a little over a month around the end of 2011 and probably will do something like that again in the future.

My vaccation is coming up and I'd LOVE spending it trying to unravel the mysteries of the tower. I'd like to think I got pretty far as Fjodir. hehe

Same goes for hell!

It's one of the cooler things to do in the game. It's easily monitored, and my view on it is sorta a how much harm could it do view. CF's numbers are hurting, and silent tower is a super interesting way to spend your time if your range is empty or you just want some alone time for a while. All it could do is boost numbers, I doubt it being open would run anyone off. When it opened over xmas, did anyone even do the "main" quest even once? Or get any archmage gear? Seems like it remained mostly low key except for the uber obvious stuff everyone always does anyways.

It's your area, so obviously you get the call on those things, and I don't want to run you off the idea of it being open by asking but I think the more it's open, the better for CF. Unless you play the game solely for PK, CF gets sort of boring in the hero range if you are a long time player. No hell right now, and no silent tower leaves little excitement for the players that have already seen all the other areas a dozen times. Tiamat is sort of a challenge, but it's only a fraction of the excitement of a well thought out area imo. Tiamat is like a 9 room area, silent tower still has parts nobody has ever seen likely.

I vote you open it up for the summer while numbers are usually low (CF always has lower numbers in summer as compared to when school starts). That way the pinch of a smaller range and less to do doesn't sting as bad :)

Wishful thinking for me at least. I know I didn't even get close to my fill last time it was open. Not like I can get my fill right now anyways, being limited to weekend CF for now :(

And for some reason I had it in my head that in the past when they closed Hell they closed it starting at the 2nd circle.

I think it would be cool to at least still have the 1st circle open since you can still return to the Thera from there. It Is a great area with some nice stuff and it seems to me more like any other high level area.

Scarab closed hell a bit over a year ago for a revamp of hell. It wasn't because anybody did anything bad this time. He just wanted to put finishing polish on the area, it was originally opened unfinished. Nobody knows exactly what he was doing to it, or if and when it is going to be open again. Patiently waiting myself, like a lot of people I imagine.

Scarab, please open hell back up so we can raze and pillage down there. Pretty please :)

But I would like to do ST once someday. Mostly because something Daev said a few years ago makes me think there's things still undiscovered by mortals in there.

I learn something new about the area. Even when I was running 5-6 satan trips a month, EVERY time I went down there, I always found some new interesting item, or mob, or inscription on a window, or hidden room, etc. Same with silent, I was constantly progressing each trip, no matter how much I thought I knew, I would always surprise myself.


Super, super, super cool areas. I pray they open again before my CF career comes to a close. Would probably keep me hooked for a while again.