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#RiseOfTheMiddleClass

Many peeps have pointed out, there's a lot of players entrenched completed/near completed houses right now keeping their value down, and they can basically stay there as long as they want (no 2k robber has a chance and wealthier robbers would be robbing that house at a loss). Some are probably biding their time for a front page run, but others may just be content to camp out this range... none of them will re-enter the natural cycle of death/rebuilding until they choose to.

Another contest might shake some people loose, but others might choose not to participate (if it's another get-as-much-money-as-you-can contest) and ultimately you'll see things return to this state afterwards.

Sleeping dogs can't be clubbed.

You can shoot them though!

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It was mentioned that it might not be a good thematic fit.

Just one night is a pretty short time frame, I dunno that there's any pattern to be seen there yet.  The amount of robberies I see in a night stayed about the same.

Sometimes there's a bit of a lull in the 10-20k range... maybe that amount just deters most 2k robbers since it's less likely to be an easy score.

For sure... but for what it's worth it the connection just seems slow and I haven't actually ever been dropped.

Could just be some peak time traffic?  Or TWC/Comcast showing us who's boss.

AFAIK that's Welkin's stream, who is not the same person as Ham.

This can be effective - trapping robbers and force them to burn tools instead of insta-gibbing them.  I had a setup for this previously... the early house was wood with powered doors/pitbull dead ends... which robbers worked around with guns/saws.  This was more than a 2k setup though.

I also played around with making my house look scarier (so fewer people would chance it) and plunging my house value, neither of which were particularly effective against overnight spikes for me.

Thanks for sharing this, always like hearing a good story.

I'd be careful about using your wife that way if you want to keep her, all it takes is a robber with a brick and a gun.   If you're planning on building a whole house around family magic dances you want to make it very hard to take them out - I'd never let them get within 3 (or more!) squares of the family.

There is an imbalance between starting builders and starting robbers, with builders being at a disadvantage at the start.

Builders:
- can't use up all their funds
- invest time in their creation
- take on multiple robbers - not knowing when they will strike
- have a house that can probably be worked around with a few meat/saws/water.

Robbers:
- can use all their funds if they choose
- get to take the initiative (builder will probably not react to their first few income spikes)
- have nothing invested in their current life (spawn, buy 2k tools, go rob).

This advantage shifts back to the builder in the middle game.  At this point, the builder has survived a night or two and has a house that is virtually impossible with 2k tools.  All further deaths by 2k robbers at this point only provide funds to make the house stronger.

Personally, I think this shift of power is one of the things that makes the game interesting.

Nice, you found all that dude's cats.

There are great things happening in this thread.

Lol nice. I always have a gun and some clubs if I'm rounding corners like that... I live in fear of the day I see a window with a bunch of dogs that will move between me and the exit without enough weapons to get out.

Defiantly a disconnect, but it could have been user initiated (alt-f4 or something). 

A couple of my larger bounties w/ 1 step suicide tapes.  No way to prove it, but my theory is it was scout  that died unexpectedly and killed the client out of anger.