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Yeah, you're probably right.

Can you think about this (and anyone else who wants to) and report back with any lightningbolt ideas?

I'm tempted to just put all 4000 of them online with $100 each in them and see what happens.

I think the harder ones will naturally collect bounties, just like real houses, right?

So that's how to get it started.

But how do we keep it going?  When do the houses get more money after they're cleaned out once?

Immhotep wrote:

Simoon wrote:

Seems like I am the King again
Probably not for a long time though.

I assume you are Toby Kevin Chandler then...

Edit: or not... since you deleted your post...

Indeed.
I have the house with the Eiffel Tower. When I wrote the post Mr. Chandler was editing his house.

I am responding to cheating with cheating no doubt.  But I am only going after a cheater.  The cheater went after me and I have never cheated before this.  Different situation methinks.

It was never really possible to create an unbounded amount of money in the first place; each entry or death still took a small amount of time.

Bounty farming might take some skill, but it's a comparatively small amount for a decent reward. There are plenty of low-money or broken houses that can be robbed, plenty of weakly defended families, and I have seen houses that are empty except for vault and family at least once a day.

I'm making some assumptions about bounties here, possibly incorrectly:
- each family member killed adds $1000
- each successful robbery adds $500

Just in the time it's taken to write this post, I've entered:

1 empty house with 3 family members: $3500 bounty
1 empty house with $800 and 3 family members: $3900 bounty and tools
1 house with family by the door: $3000 bounty
1 house with children by the door: $2000 bounty

Assuming all those bounties are correct and apply immediately, that's $12500 in bounties and bought tools, and would take about 10 minutes to do with minimal risk. The robber can die in one of the empty houses or in a broken house to drop the bounty, meaning this is only limited by the turnover rate of empty/broken houses. Sure, it's not unlimited, but it takes little skill or time and it allows anyone with access to two accounts to build  a house without having to keep any money around to attract robbers or finance his own robberies. Whenever he needs more, he can just rob the bottom of the list with his second account, go and die somewhere, and pick up the few thousand in bounties with his first account.

He can also circumvent death, to some extent, by keeping his second account in the first account's house when going out robbing. He's unlikely to do that, though, because it would be easier to  just steal from himself, use that to buy tools, and attempt the robbery with the scond account instead of the first. Either way, he's never at risk of losing everything, because he can store money in the form of bounties rather than in his vault.

Self explanatory discussion thread
I, for one, always sell the tools. When I actually have a house up-and-running that can keep off at least 5k worth of tools, then I'll start stockpiling tools to use against other people. Until then, I'm going to keep selling tools from 2k divers and use it to upgrade my place. Since I haven't had an actually successful house (except for when Noonan died in my place, but that doesn't exactly count because I died self testing that house shortly after) I've been selling tools to spend on more complex mechanisms for my house.

they probably recognize your house as a death trap

What if they were unkillable pit bulls, but could still be put to sleep. and as someone said, you could put them to sleep and if you rob successfully you steal it.