Oblivion Gates

I am a level 43 battlemage type character and before I finish the main quest
I have been trying to map the whole world and close every Oblivion gate
there is. Does anyone know if the gates appear throughout the game world
randomly or are they set in place? Are there a finite number of gates or do
they pop up when you get close to closing them all? I have closed 57 gates
so far and am still finding some here and there.

Sometimes they seem to pop up randomly when I enter a gate and then see the
"gate within a gate." I exit through the other gate and then note the
location on the game map. It seems it invents a new gate location in these
instances because I have already explored that part of the map and the gate
appears where there was no gate before.

Any Ideas?

Kevin

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:19:58 GMT, "Kevin" <Kjohnson4408 RemoveThis @mn.rr.com>
wrote:

>I am a level 43 battlemage type character and before I finish the main quest
>I have been trying to map the whole world and close every Oblivion gate
>there is. Does anyone know if the gates appear throughout the game world
>randomly or are they set in place?

There are 64 set locations that random gates may appear in. It is safe
to say that closing them all is not possible until the main quest is
done, because they appear at a faster rate than you can close them and
reach the next one.

> Are there a finite number of gates or do
>they pop up when you get close to closing them all?

If there are 64 open, then no more can open, otherwise you can get more
at any time until the main quest is done.

> I have closed 57 gates
>so far and am still finding some here and there.

You know most of the locations, then. Be aware that nothing stops a new
gate from popping up where you'd previously closed one, until the main
quest reaches a certain stage.

>Sometimes they seem to pop up randomly when I enter a gate and then see the
>"gate within a gate." I exit through the other gate and then note the
>location on the game map. It seems it invents a new gate location in these
>instances because I have already explored that part of the map and the gate
>appears where there was no gate before.

I have no idea what's happening there.
--
Greg Johnson