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If the kids pick it up, either they or the closest family member would die / :

Thats nice and all, and awesome and fine and dandy and great, but it's not the issue / the issue is that you have a fantastic game, with tons of interesting puzzle elements, that your family has no way of interacting with, and yet its perfectly viable to sink your recourses into protecting them. The problem there is that when it comes to family defence we have one one optimal strategy, that strategy involves furry monsters(willing to kill their own owner in a heart beat should he make a single mistake) en masse. Whereas if I choose to defend my vault, do I decide between a chase centred larinth, or a magic dance focused house, do I place my electrics over a pit? Do I leave part of my wiring out in the opening knowing my opponent wont comprehend it, how do I create a point of no return? With a fence and a trap door? Or a powered door and a corralled dog? The possibilities are endless and engaging. Why is family defence so droll by comparison? You can have your cake and eat it to / : make it so that theres more than one viable method to protect your family, your still splitting recourses and attention, only now your doing it in engaging manner.

Still, if we didnt have to worry about protecting a wife or kids in those starting stages, that 2000 defence would be a lot more useful, that and the only save point robbers would have is the vault, this means robbers cant just trash your place, kill a kid, trash it some more, kill another kid, trash it then some, kill a wife, obliterate the remnants, hit up the safe, then douse whats left in oil and light up a dozen matches, hit up the safe again...ect.

In general I just dont know why the wife plays such a large role in the game, thematically yeah shes interesting, but game play wise she detracts from the actual puzzle design( pit bull stacks are not fun to design or crack and the wife cant engage with any puzzle elements like the fence or the pit). Aside from changing how she works or removing her, heres a suggestion, what if the player didn't start out with a wife? What If once he was financially secure and in possession of a proven safe house he would automatically obtain one XD Like wise kids would be a further mile stone, and both would offer different benefits.

Starting money means nothing, player will destroy newbie houses on the downtime that they're waiting to tackle larger ones(which upon successfully robbing they will start thier own house). Now if your someone whose invested 4000-6000 in a house, sure of course you wont do that. But the starter smasher doesn't have to be reasonable / :.

I know right?

Electric fence or pit does that, it just doesn't hide the info.

That man hasnt got the a care in the world. Thanks for the changes sir jason.

This is brilliant.

Here are two ideas, sorry niether are simple / :. Not how I roles. Option a)bulk buying, Ie the more of something you buy at a time, the cheaper it gets, this would allow players whove managed to get up on thier feet adress a familiar strategy spread over a few houses with greater ease. Now, heres my other suggestion, why not implement a kit deal that lasts the day? Everything in the kit (which would be worth 4000 total or something) would be brought down half price as a deal. Each day the players would vote for the next days kit or the kit would be randomly selected from a variety of player developed ones. This would allow players to have a tool to deal with a common strat, it would be in everyones interest pretty much to have diffrent houses, otherwise a truly effective kit would allow everyone to lay waste to one another.

Yeah, sorry mr jones ) :. Your lock was not super effective.