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Has anyone thought about a good-ol' fakeout by putting the safe behind your family, then you make line of sight with your family and cause them to leave, which leaves the vault wide open? I guess you could include traps behind your family too just to make it less obvious (and still difficult for someone to get there), but it seems like a good case of sort of hiding the vault in plain sight.

At least in my experience, most players assume that where the family is, there is nothing else.

Magic Dances still mystify me. I get that they're supposed to be obscure and hard to figure out, but is there a way around them other than knowing the specific movements?

This was a post in the Meta-Game and Trap Mechanics thread:

Not to throw Alaorath under the bus or anything but I assume he was the one who made the change you're speaking of, Josh.

The fix should be fairly easy though, simply create a new page called traps guide or trap mechanics and cut/paste everything over, no?

Thanks for the clarifications ventuswings.

Blip and Iceman, now that you guys have shared your designs with us, do you mind if I post some of them in the Meta-Game and Trap Mechanics thread? Since they're already here for people to see I assume that you don't mind but I wanted to get permission from you folks first.

That's fucking brilliant.

It looks like we are locked out of our houses (even on new lives) for 5 minutes.

What about edits that take a long time?

For example, when I start a new game the first thing I do is spend $2k on tools and try to make it back (plus some) with a big heist. THAT's when I start to actually construct my home defense. How will that style of play be affected? It sounds like I am going to have to keep hitting "Done" then self-test, then rush to go back into edit mode before someone can enter my house, and repeat this process every several minutes. Is that about right?

I have been considering the idea of a house with a failsafe. I am sure this has been tried before but I haven't seen it personally so I'm not sure how the mechanics of it turn out in actual gameplay:

If there were a way to make a power source so appealing to short out (at the mere cost of $100) that a player would almost CERTAINLY short it out if they saw it, but unbeknownst to them it also powers trap doors leading to the vault.

Once they short the power source, the other traps in the house are disabled, but now that the trapdoors are unpowered (and cannot be powered back on), the vault is unreachable without ladders (which are expensive and likely make the theft not worthwhile).

Has anyone tried this? How has it worked out for you?

Wow I come back from lunch and suddenly the thread is stickied! Thanks Jason. I will do my best to keep it up-to-date!

I'm not familiar with this one. Is it something like this?

EDIT: Except that those switches would be on.