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Hmm, I thinks that's ok then XD

so.. someone with a broken/insolvable house could just open the game, then wait 5 minutes to get kicked to the house list and then proceed to rob other houses, without having to fix his own?

THIS! nice quotes XD

That's right, I had not thought of that.. thanks!

maybe with some pitfall sound effect when you cross a pit thru a ladder? XD

This is something!.. maybe only with "noisy" tools, like when you are crashing a wall or killing a pet/family member, but not when you are cutting wires

I think this only makes sense with some items, like the ladder... or maybe only with the ladder at all.. But, if you think like that, carrying several wire cutters and trowing them away at each use doesn't makes sense too..

EDIT: Sorry, ChartaBona, I think I was typing when you were editing your post XD
The noise level is interesting.. but something to think about.. a crowbar used to break a glass makes the same noise that one used to open an electric door? The balance here would be hard, as it can't use the trap/tool value as parameter. (I think the tools values are based on how many/how expensive traps it can disable). That wouldn't be correct for the ladder and the trapdoor, maybe..

Anyway, that could apply some nice dynamic to the robberies

It's a good idea, I think, and makes sense, but... I think that this would make the top houses almost unreachable, especially now with lots of new players entering the first house on the list

Today I was thinking that a more "realistic" scenario would be if you could see the green outlets on the wall, but not the wires inside [which is a kind of x-ray vision]
That way you know that that is a wired wall, but you don't know exactly where the wires are going

aand thats it. You just stay some hours away and it's gone xD
After a few days my house killed 163 poor souls (out of 206 tapes), and the vault had around 75k
Not much, but I was still pretty happy with it, as it was my second house

Then Mr. Coston stormed in with 168k in tools. Weird in the end, because even if all the tools was from another houses's safes, it would still be something like 85k in tools for a 75k house (and by the end he still had 60 waters and some other stuff)

At least he was the only one to find my "ohai" room

I think pets and family members, both in editing and robbery/self test mode, are always facing the player (you or others). Even if they had not seen you yet

EDIT: except for cats, which are always facing away xD

3 guys came into my house today and did the same thing. I don't know what to think about this..