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Like the ideas being discussed here, sign me up. Will give it a try if the server actually manages to work out all the details being discussed here

I think it's so effective because it completely goes against your intuition of checking the corridor closest to the entrance. Even if you know about the existence of such a trap, it's very hard to go against your usual scouting habit. The flexibility of design for the dog/wife pincer traps doesn't help as well

Bump because it's hidden amongst all the alien spam

I concur "A Snail In The Sun" is amazing. It also has nostalgia value on my case since it was the very first painting I managed to rob

My commit gates are surprise death traps
(one of the most common example for this would be one of those electric floors that seem switch-based but is in fact also clock-based)

Strange. Maybe you could replay that play session to see if there had been anything you missed, and if not, report it!

I love houses like this. Two bricks is all it takes.

Why not this?
http://castledraft.com/editor/36UkKo

Wow, I haven't expected there to be actual successful hacker. At least it'll further improve the client security!

I like how you took a step just to prevent the owner from mistaking your generosity

@ jw2pfd

But slowing down value growth rate will not cause your house to be protected - your house is always targeted and liable to destruction; it just change what kind of robber decides to visit your house. While I understand the suspense part of the community, it is quite unsatisfying as home builder to see robber brute force through the house with amount of tools the house had not yet been prepared for, just because you decided to go to sleep and couldn't update it in time.

There is imminent danger, but if leaving your home unattended for more than six hours is guaranteed ruination, you risk desensitization and apathy. After all, doing stuff to defend against the imminent danger is one of the major point of the game! All the discussion about brute forcing etc. is there because we as community desire proper ratio of security vs danger.

@ jere
I am cautious about how bounty cap would work out. How would such cap handle the tools? Donate them also when reaching the cap? But there is certain number of tools I might desire over others. Also, I am afraid putting direct financial cap on the houses would skew the amount of in-game money that flows into the game compared to the money being lost per death.

I know I'm parroting myself here, but lowering the sell value of tools would much help alleviate both problems.

Bring bounty back to $200 which is enough money for beginning houses to kick off, while reduced tool prices would much more effectively and significantly prevent the house value from skyrocketing. When people die, it's $1000 from tool value (NOT the measly $200) that becomes problematic - and these tool values are not available to lower-end houses, who need boost the most. Hell, slash tool sell price to 1/4 and number of money from the starter kit robber would plummet from current $1050 (1000+50) to

EDIT: $700 (500+200).

Bah, Maths.