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Issue is, though, you can't instantly exit a house by reaching a broken vault, you have to make your way all the way back out again, which is often impossible.

A simple electric floor trap that can't be averted with just one water:

The two cheapest solutions:
$250 - brick window, move up, move down, use water (opens one direction, other direction costs another water)
$300 - brick window, brick cat (opens both directions)

If you didn't bring bricks:
$400 - wire cutters (opens one direction, other direction costs a water)

If you didn't bring bricks or wire cutters, then depending on wall block directly below you:
$500 - saw, move down, move up, water (opens one direction, other direction costs another water)
$900 - blowtorch, etc
$1300 - explosives, etc

Well, the more money you have, the more you have to lose upon dying, so the risk is higher everywhere the richer you are. And no one, however rich, will spend more than a house's value to rob it (unless they have an ulterior motive), since doing that means a drop in net worth even if you do reach the safe. This is why the rich rarely rob the poor.

Also, dogs can't pass certain player-passable tiles, such as panic buttons and discarded trigger locks.

To expand on changing the scrolling: buttons for scrolling more than one house page at a time. Since yeah, getting out of the rich range every time you clear a filter takes a while now that there's so many houses. Possibly also page numbers plus a box that lets you enter a page number.

A confirmation box for exiting the backpack after things have been either bought or sold, so it's not quite so easy to accidentally hit done instead of undo when checking your true house value and lose all your tools forever.

A setting to make enter-confirm default to on, for those people who want that extra careful. Also, a setting that will only accept one key press per second, or some other unit of time, to prevent accidental double-taps.

Just in-game settings in general, since manual setting files are even more awkward to use now that they're inside the Steam folder system.

A way to reset attempts/deaths without redoing the self-test, since as of now all you have to do is pick up the vault and put it back down (and redo self-test)?

Options for moving every piece in the house one space in the same direction, for when your plans are slightly wrong and you just need that one more row.

I saw that house. A nice sign, albeit not very polite. Did I rob that one? I'm not sure. I hope I did.

My goal for the contest was to break even, make at least the $8 I paid for the game. I would stop robbing after that point, especially since I never do any really in-depth robberies anyway, I always either have not enough money or too much to lose. Over the course of the contest I made/passed my goal a few times, but was always brought down eventually. On the last day I passed that point again, peaking at $17.10. Sat watching the forums and watching the time run down for a while. Then, with about 9 minutes left on the clock, someone breaks my house and takes it all. So overall I walked away with nothing, maybe about $1.50 if my last-second, one-step-up-from-starter house was up at the buzzer.

Oh, whew. I thought I was getting hit with a really lengthy robbery and I got nervous. I'm past my goal of covering the game purchase twice over at the moment, just got to hold it for another fifteen minutes...

Edit: And then five minutes later someone does clear out my safe, GG, I lose.

Yeah, I've done that a few times to attract more people and erase scary-looking death ratios.

Well, I guess there's still that slim chance that the electric floor isn't the only power link. Plus, it denies you one extra tool in a sort of last act of spite.

Q. What's that symbol in my tapes list?

A. The Japanese symbol for death. A tape marked with this symbol is one in which the robber dies at the end, the dollar value shown indicating the bounty you claimed. For any tape without this symbol, a dollar value indicates the amount of money that was stolen from you.
Also, I lied, it's just a skull. The kanji isn't real either, I made it because that's what I saw at first. The closest I found was 舌, which means tongue.

I recently got myself a slightly different kind of death. I didn't realize that even just a kid dying will save house damage, so I let someone tear through my destroyed house and claim the last of my money.