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@Raulillo said:
To identify a safe structure is pretty simple. The longer the loop, the safer. This is based on how impactful could be the killer changing direction in which he is running the loop.
For example the classic pallet near the window of foundry the killer can stand in the middle of the opposite side of the pallet, run side to side to bait a double vault, and then he could run around and lunge before the third vault animation ends. Also keep in mind that this pallet is safer before droping it because it could give you an easy path to another structure.
Bigger structures are safer, like jungle gyms. That because you have access to a window (usually), they are big and they have long corners. Corners are safe elements because you can stand in the joint of the two walls and watch the killer coming with the 3rd person camera.
So as you run into a loop you start doing a check list, the more checks the safer the structure is:
Is it long enough to avoid vault baits?
Has corners to extend the loop if the killer try to mind game wrong?
Has windows?
Has another pallet or structure near?
Both sides of the pallet have an escape rute?
Acceptable wall height? (Depends on the killer, high walls against huntress to avoid hatchets or low against legion to avoid mind games)
There are more questions that you can add, but with these I think you can identify most of them pretty easily.
Another way to improve is progress from looping to chaining structures. You loop less on each structure but use more structures going from one to another to move the killer around the map as he is chasing you. Pallets should be dropped to cancel bloodlust but you can cancel without it (baiting a huntress hatchet for example), so learning to extend pallets as much as possible is the goal.
You can improve in baits and techs too, faking a vault or a fall can give you a free 10% of a gen easily. Also forcing killers to break safe pallets can be useful (bait your escape and then return to the structure for another loop until the killer breaks it), if the killer don't break the pallet should be because he thinks it's unsafe, you have to prove him wrong.
Streamers usually explain some of these points during streams multiple times, all the time. I don't know if you have some problems understanding part of it, so any doubt i would be glad to try to answer. I have less hours played than you tho, the difference is a ton.

This is a terrific answer, thanks! The steamer Uncharted__ is particularly good at explaining exactly what he does and why. However, he does it as he's playing, so it's quick and I lose track of the visual component (like, he might be running and by the time my brain processes the explanation, the pallet or loop is gone from the screen)

I will probably print this little guide out and put it near my monitor so I can read it between matches (I know, OK Boomer!) :)

Also, having fewer hours doesn't mean you don't know your stuff. Some people are just better at the game than others, and that's a wonderful thing