Missing stairs/ladders in wtower?

[musiclvr]

After going through the dungeon under the temple of Laanx, I proceded up the stairs to get out to Hydlaa. Well, on the way out, I took a different set of stairs which led me to the wtower. Now, as I try climbing the ladder/stairs I ended up falling off about half way up one of the ladders. It looks like you should be able to climb all the way up, but you get part way up, then you fall all the way to the bottom of the tower and die. According to /pos, I am at -200.89,19.97,41.10 in sector wtower. I did look this up in bugtracker and found another person had opened this as an issue on 01-06-2006, Bug #1408, but it was closed as a duplicate. I can't find what the duplicate bug report is though. Maybe someone can help me out. I would like to get to the top.

[LigH]

This bug is probably known for years; the usual workaround is: Walk up carefully until you can see the "missing" stair from a certain camera angle. When you approached this stair, jump onto the next (simply upwards). From the next stair, you can walk now up to the top.

[DaveG]

It's basically the same bug as the sewers entrances.  Horizontal portals in CS have issues.

[LigH]

Maybe they need some "double safety" (overlapping areas of environment)?

[Wired_Crawler]

No. It could make things even worse.
Fixing that ladder is quite easy . The portals between lower and upper part of wtower must be placed a little bit lower (0.06 units works for me),  or maybe the last step of the ladder before portal should be little higher ?
The portal leading from highest ladder to tower roof also should be lower (0.3 units).

And maybe the entrance to the sewer behind the tavern could be fixed in a similar way ?

[DaveG]

Wired_Crawler, please go pester Talad to make the change if that fixes it. 

[Wired_Crawler]

I've updated bug reports #364 and #439. They are assigned to Talad. He should be pestered by bugtracker notifications .

[DaveG]

Hah... right...
Talad has a billion "this pixel is slightly out of place" bugs assigned to him.  He one more report won't phase him. 
You'll need to catch him on IRC.

[Pale]

I always thought that the ladders in the tower were ~magical~ with hidden illusions to prevent the unworthy from climbing to the very top! (And then skydiving onto the unsuspecting passer-bys below  )