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this kind of play style is a consequence of the low population, not the reason why.

The game is based on innovation, by sharing designs after death we learned a lot, but you always had to adapt, modify, otherwise your house wouldn't have passed the night.

Problem is... learning curve, really steep. It took me 1 week to get pass the 24h mark for the first time. to play this game you need a lot of patience, and over time if you don't have an influx of newcomers, the player base inevitably shrinks.

If no more than 2-3 peoples are playing the game seriously there is no chance for newcomers to learn the game being the only target around, and they resolve in using well known trap.

The constant flow of ideas kept peoples playing, and that is when a great game became an incredible game.

lol, woke up and found the forum flooded with post, now i feel nostalgic.

not me, haven't been playing for long time now.

still following the forum and TH updates, but i'm too busy with work right now.

I wouldn't have the time to stop you jerks from robbing my money

goddam i'm sad in seeing this game is dying....

and still no news from cullmann....

@Cullmann if you're there, let us know, i bet there's still lots of us who would like to play the game again, and a lot more if they only knew this game exists.

edit. actually there are news...

http://www.terminalheist.com/forums/vie … p?id=11915

I can't wait to see this game up and running again

any news? the forum seems rather quite lately...

wow wow,  i thought it would have last forever with such small community.

did you smashd everything from the very first step or you've found an alternative solution?

hi, welcome back.

the player base shrunk over time, but there's still peoples playing. (and every now and than some old timer shows up just like you did)
made my last house a couple of months ago, no hack going around back then, cannot be sure about nowadays.

i always keep an eye on the forum and soon or later i'll be back with another project.

still... i can't understand how the power reaches the two sides of the door.
it would take something like that (ignore positioning)

http://castledraft.com/editor/Yfis3P

but i haven't found any connection between upper and lower part in JWG design, they seem completely independent.
also, you can't use the dancing grids as a connection, otherwise they'll be permanently lighted up (if i've got the principle right)
so the connection should be somewhere behind the door.

or... is it possible to break the circuit into two separate pieces to achieve the same result?

thanks man, that helped

lol best santa ever

sounds familiar
nice to hear it's still annoying peoples out there

had my last house a couple of months ago, too busy to play right now, but i always keep an eye on the forum between games.

soon or later i'll be back, this game is too addictive

one of the most important thing is to hide information to the robbers, if they can rule out the approximate location of the vault, they can calculate exactly how much money they need in order to force their way trough.

one common error is to give hint by using different protection style -> route to vault built with concrete and powered doors/pit -> everything else wood and fishy looking doors.

something i've found very useful in my last house (links in the signature if you're interested), is having a multi-way entrance that lead to completely different section of the house. First of all there's no way to know where's the vault, and second, if someone start learning how to pass the right section, you can always move the vault to the other one.
(than the dirty trick would be to disrupt some of the electronic on the path he is following, to make him kill himself while passing a well known trap)

you can learn a lot on robbers behavior by looking closely at the tape.
See how they approach your traps and ask yourself why they do what they do.