I'm still trying to find anything more recent than that FoF that has word from anyone official regarding blocking items INSIDE a stronghold. As mentioned above, a guildmate reminded me a few days ago that back around the time the sigil corruption/purification times changed and the war zones went into place, there seemed to be some confusion on the part of the GMs regarding a lot of faction rules.
I think one issue of concern was using vendors to corral guards outside of the TB and COM bases or around town sigil posts, making it very difficult for an enemy to kill the guards. It is a lot easier to kill the guards when you can lure them away a few at a time instead of trying to approach a cluster of 10-30 of them all piled in a 5x5 square.
I believe the GMs were at that time cracking down hard (on some shards at least) on faction sheriffs/finance ministers that used the guard-corraling tactic. At the same time, some factions were also taking the opportunity to whine about blocking items in strongholds and perhaps succeeded in some cases in having the GMs warn folks about blocking items.
That seems to have been the case in this thread that started on October 16, 2008: http://vboards.stratics.com/showthread.php?t=107102. This was right about the time I remember there being a hullabaloo on Sonoma about guard-corraling.
I think one issue of concern was using vendors to corral guards outside of the TB and COM bases or around town sigil posts, making it very difficult for an enemy to kill the guards. It is a lot easier to kill the guards when you can lure them away a few at a time instead of trying to approach a cluster of 10-30 of them all piled in a 5x5 square.
I believe the GMs were at that time cracking down hard (on some shards at least) on faction sheriffs/finance ministers that used the guard-corraling tactic. At the same time, some factions were also taking the opportunity to whine about blocking items in strongholds and perhaps succeeded in some cases in having the GMs warn folks about blocking items.
That seems to have been the case in this thread that started on October 16, 2008: http://vboards.stratics.com/showthread.php?t=107102. This was right about the time I remember there being a hullabaloo on Sonoma about guard-corraling.