» Wed Sep 02, 2009 4:55 pm
With the exception of a couple of the "city gates" that are involved in the Allies for Bruma quest, the worlds the gates connect to are random, so telling us where the gate is doesn't help.
However, since we recognized the Natural Disasters setup, we can get out of there. Each of the four outer towers has a switch at the top to open a gate at ground level to the inner zone. There's a door from each tower top leading to the same level of the main tower, and you can go out to the top of each of the other outer towers in turn and open all the gates, by just returning to the main tower each time and going around to the next. You don't need to return to the ground until you've opened all the gates. However, if you look down from the bridges between the outer towers and the main one, you can see which gates are open. Once you can see a way inside is open, you can go down and enter the inner zone without opening the rest of the gates.
The inner zone has doors to two more towers. Go up either one, and at the top there's a bridge across to the main tower at a different level from the previous four. This one gives you full access to the main tower and you can go up to the top and close it. Just go upwards when you get into the main tower, and try a different door if you find the path leads down, or out to the other inner tower.