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It's way more fun to use a toggle switch instead of a sticky switch in that situation. Makes the electric floor look safe, because "hey, I can just toggle the switch back off!" Except, no, you can't! I've racked up so many kills from that simple trick.

This is actually a feature that is already implemented! You can test your house 100% safely by replacing electric floors with Conducting Indicator Lights, trapdoors and powered doors with Non-Conducting Indicator lights, and pitbulls with chihuahuas.

Then, once you safely reach your safe, backtrack to the exit (don't actually touch your safe) so that you don't get charged for the lights, and replace them with the deadly traps. But that way you won't die because you messed up wiring somewhere.

Instead of creating a new thread for each new idea, it would be better to post them in the Suggestions Thread:

http://thecastledoctrine.net/forums/vie … php?id=700

Keeps the forum cleaner and easier to read.

I wonder how many total steps were taken? Average steps per robbery would be an interesting statistic!

Maybe there could be some sort of pay-to-know sort of thing. As far as lore goes, it could be explained as paying a fence or someone else in the know for information. Maybe it is $10k to get a list of all houses in the neighborhood that have a painting inside. Or you could pay $25k to know exactly who has a particular painting you are after.

Whatever the actual cost is tuned to be, this way you preserve the feelings of surprise when you stumble across something in the wild, but at the same time, as the player-base grows and grows and grows and it becomes almost impossible to check every house, richer robbers who are after a particular painting have a way to find it.

That's brilliant! I've been thinking that there should be some sort of upper limit on the number of tools you can carry, but I know Jason has said he doesn't want to do that.

This, however, still allows unlimited tools but makes it cost prohibitive. A very elegant solution.

I'm curious what happened to the million dollar house that was up there most of today! That was nuts. Did the owner die, or is he just editing? EDIT: He's back with $1.2 million. Earl Arthur Willson. Impressive!

Also, I just broke $50k and made it to the top page for the first time! woohoo!

...and uh-oh! *runs off to strengthen defenses*

P.S. Mine is the one with the lighted arrow pointing the way!

The game opens in Steam, so files should be fine. It's just that it won't log you in to the server without updating.

Edit: Just tried Steam again, and it is working. Not sure if that is (or even could be) related to the fact that I downloaded the newest non-Steam version.