Why on earth is everyone building ladders up towers in *** doors again?

Just wondering if anyone can enlighten me as to why this seems to now be the common method of laddering up towers opposed to the obviously much quicker and cheaper bridge, that seemed to be well accepted as the way of doing things after bridges were changed so you could jump up through them as well as down quite a while ago. Seems like almost a majority of people are doing it nowadays and I've got some right shit telling people (in a nice constructive polite way to begin with) that they're just wasting time and resources, and ultimately making towers much weaker.

 

Got a point... An in all honestly my 4 yr old bro is a better builder then most people.
And the ladder thing is so annoying because you go and bomb jump... And hit the ladder three blocks in front of you -_-

 

I meant "ladder" as in a method of getting up the side of towers, but your right that's really annoying too.

 

Oh yes the only thing of a great annoyance with the "ladder" is if it is really tall it is really slow to get down.
My 4 yr old bro made a great version of this type of building when on my com I will post a pic.
He is amazing.
And yes suddenly people are... The only thong with trap doors is that they break them and get up, but is the same with team doors.

 

@AnRK

There are a lot of casuals who play this game. There are going to be at least 1 n00b per open match. Get used to it. :/

 

Already am, just can't understand where this trend has appeared from, most people didn't do it till recently, casuals/new people included . Thankfully on most servers I can get about 1 in 3 or 4 to listen to constructive criticism.

 

Luigi... that's a bit excessive. Can you please TRY to be personable?

 

They're much faster to climb, that's why.

 

It's slower going down, but it IS faster going up and harder to break than a wall of bridges.

Unless you're talking about the goddammed "elevator" made of doors.

 

Why? They...

- Have great speed: They are faster to climb than drawbridges. If you want to achieve a decent speed with drawbridges, you end up spending more wood than if you had used doors. Specially when they make drawbridge ladders with no space between in an attempt to compare to door ladders' speed, but wasting twice as much wood in the process.
- Don't let the enemy in: Any skilled knight can with a simple hit turn the drawbridge into a ladder for enemies. Team door ladders are knight-proof, as they can't slash the team door while climbing. And enemy builders can't make them neutral with a single click. And don't dissapear/neutralize when a tiny catapult rock hits them.
- Don't depend on the absence of enemies: So many times you see a builder trying to climb a drawbridge to flee from a knight. Oh, he can't, the drawbridge can't be used when enemies are near. Well, rest in peace.

That drawbridges are useful in certain situations doesn't make doors obsolete at all. For the reasons above and many others I've seen in practice I build with door ladders most of the time.

 

@drok, the "elevator" is single column composed entirely of doors. It is exceedingly slow to climb and almost impossible for two or more units to use at once.

http://kagforum.com/index.php?threads/203-teamdoor-elevators.2015/#post-31791

In more recent builds, the elevator, as it exists in the linked post, is also nearly impossible to descend from, though fairly easy to climb.

 

Ooooh the teamdoor elevators.

Goddamn I hate them and I hate the people who do them. It's especially annoying in the new version since you can't get down them almost at all.

 

That's pretty much what I was after, overall though for the extra hassle to build, the extra resources, and that on a thinner tower that extra block of stone either side makes for a bit of extra strength, it seems that in most cases that bridges are a better option. If your an epically quick builder though and can make a decent tower with them in pre-game then fair enough I guess as there's an up side, most of the time I see them been made it takes an ice age compare to sticking a few bridges on the side, if the tower is well defended when it ought to be then knocking them out shouldn't be a problem. Neither are clearly as as bad as an elevator though obviously :P

 

I like building elevators in which only the left tiles, or only the right tiles, are filled with team doors because team bridges are susceptible to enemies using this glitch and double team doors don't let you go down anymore, and I need 2 tile wide tunnels pretty often for maintenance tunnels or whatever. Also archers like it.

Also I haven't encountered any door-laddering people. It's probably because I haven't been playing.

 

I can explain this, the three tall door thing is made because its now difficult (or impossible) to place thick blocks (Stone wall, Team door, Gold Bullion) in the square immediately above your character, whereas it is possible to place them two blocks above your character.

Note; this may just be a glitch I'm experiencing, so correct me if I'm wrong.