The Castle Doctrine Forums

Discuss the massively-multiplayer home defense game.

You are not logged in.

#1 Re: Main Forum » Robber deaths and house resets » 2014-02-10 15:13:28

Yes, it is intentional for the traps to not reset if a family member is killed. It may render a house impossible to crack without tools, but the owner must do a self test before he exits his house, so it must (more or less) be fixed to continue playing.

You will not lose tools which you have equipped if your house gets robbed. However, if you equip tools and leave your house for five minutes without doing anything, the tools will be returned to your vault. If you enter a house with tools and exits, the tools will be lost.

[edit] colorfusion was faster smile

#2 Re: Main Forum » Trouble Starting » 2014-02-09 04:38:48

Starting can be tough. But I find that suicide robbing higher value houses with 2k worth of tools usually works. Most of the times there seems to be a house in the 5-15k range that is easy enough to "solve". The five minutes before your house gets listed will also give you some time to scout without spending the starting cash. A benefit of suicide robbing is that you learn a lot about traps and how to circumvent them.

Building a simple starting house is also viable. I find that building a cheap death trap with a non obvious "commit gate" can be very successful. The key is to keep your house value on a level high enough to be interesting to rob for new players without tools. I have had luck attracting robbers with houses in the 800-1000 value range. And while waiting for robbers to die, I scout and rob other low value houses.

#3 Re: Main Forum » Contest Results » 2014-02-03 17:26:10

Thanks for posting the video ukuko. Really impressive house. One shouldn't be allowed to brute force that with tools!

I'm surprised my "Jason Edwin Acosta"-house came ninth place. It was a quick late night "copy+paste" house (no original traps) and, if i remember correctly, could be solved with a crowbar + killing a dog or two and a cat. I didn't have time to change it much but it lasted 2-3 days after the competition (~150-200k value) before it was brute forced.

#4 Re: Main Forum » [Poll] What's your favorite tool? » 2014-02-03 16:38:51

Ahhh the wonderful brick - always bought in even numbers. Saved me many times from the evil cats and their traps. I only wish I was stronger so I could throw them further than four tiles.

I don't think that I have ever used a crowbar. I remember wishing I had one once or twice though when facing powered doors.

#5 Re: Main Forum » Suicides - WHY??? » 2014-02-03 16:12:39

Yes, probably disconnects. Or pehaps someone was beeing "nice". For example, I was bored the other day (I had no inspiration to build traps) so I was running around suiciding in houses with low cash just to give them some start-up money.

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB 1.5.8