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I agree with dustman here. No matter how much I want to play this game and how much I trust Jason, I'm not going to enter my credit card number. If there was some way to hook the game up to a PayPal account that would be better; that way I could put a limited amount of funds into the account so that even if there was a security issue, I couldn't lose more than that amount of money.

Uhhhh, Earl Michael Case (aka eppfel), you just tried to rob me with $53,600 worth of tools, and yet you ended up leaving after one step... Are you editing your move list or something? Or did you make a mistake? Because wasting that many tools is simply absurd.

See, beforehand I was waiting for Longoria to reach $60k or more so I could be sure of a profitable brute force. Now I'm willing to brute force you at any cost (then probably buy 1 more painting. ).

Edit: Yeah, my record's now 108 after robbing Pinion again, and then you (off of a very lucky guess).

I've seen that house before (or an older version of it), but never tried it other than some ill-fated suicide scouts; cutting through the walls to bypass the dance, especially when you likely had a living wife, wouldn't have turned a profit. It's a pretty clever design though, despite being a bit large.

Oh, yeah, that place. I robbed him ages ago, back before the house was completely trashed. It's been sort of sitting there and accruing bounties for at least a month by now, and was, to the best of my knowledge, unrobbable without tools.

The weekend's nearly over, so I figured why not just guess? I knew you had 25 steps from before, and guessed that you didn't change it. I knew that the first two buttons had to be pressed, and guessed that the other one didn't. And, luckily, I was right.

Firstly, it might just be somebody who's lucky. If your dances are relatively simplistic (especially just pairs of buttons spaced out by one, so the dance pattern is LRLLLLRLLLLR etc.) they're very easily guessed; when I'm suicide robbing, I always guess that first and it's worked many, many times - for all I know, I may even have been the guy who robbed you. The same thing goes for combo locks, with combinations like 1,3,5 or 2,4,6.
Second, it might be due to alt-scouting. Check your other recent tapes and see if anybody cut through any of your traps and saw anything that could have given them a hint.
If you want, you can post the map here (if you're not still using it) and we can help determine if the robbery was just luck or not.

I think that I know what I have to do to crack your place. I just need to figure out the timing (and the initial 3-bit combo), which'll be decently difficult with only 2k of tools.

This one wasn't a self-test death (neither was Harris for that matter! My only recent self-test death for a major life was Mills); I died to some lucky homeowner who just happened to have a dog commit gate that I didn't notice as I was walking back, even when I had enough tools to leave.

The reason I die so often is because, unlike a lot of top-tier house owners, I still do lots of robberies. As Coats, even once I had my house nearly complete, I robbed Pinion (twice!), Case, Callahan, and a few others. When I'm robbing that many houses, especially ones that are very, very deadly, I'm bound to mess up occasionally and die.

Completely unrelated (but I just have to ask): Who messed up Malone's place? I thought I was the only person who knew the right way through, but then I show up and find extra cats dead and the house impassable! That sucks, because I always used Malone's cash as seed money for big robberies.

This is a great idea. I've heard variants of it for some time, but they all seemed overpowered; the limited-duration aspect you're suggesting seems like it would balance the tool pretty well.

That was me. I'm not a cheater - I just figured that your house was reasonably cheap due to your low vault cash, I could tell that the wall was one tile thick (looking carefully does wonders), and assumed that I could use a meat to bypass what was obviously a dog trap and then cut upwards. Frankly, I was just very lucky - I was convinced that the electric floors weren't hooked up to anything (low-cash value houses often use the fake-floors trick), and that I would be able to leave after I saw what was above the wall. Once I was up there, I just explored the door corridor and happened to find the vault. I was actually really happy - because otherwise, my return route was cut off by the now-active electric floors and I would have to find another way back to the front door; I was just lucky to have survived a really dumb assumption and a possibly deadly mistake.

Frankly, I don't think that accusing people of cheating with little to no evidence is really constructive. I'm already tired of being accused of abusing dual accounts, and now I have to be accused of wallhax too?

I don't like being referred by such vulgar terms.