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on the wiki you'll find examples of pulse circuits, which send only a single quick pulse when first powered. One of these on each button, with the outputs connected to an AND gate, may well work. Not intimately familiar with the way circuits are updated, so more fiddling and wiring might be required, I'm not sure.

^^^ this. I've wished for a button that was on only while stood on, turning off when you step off, since my first hour or so playing. I don't know how likely any new components or tools are at this point in the game's life, but Jason, if you decide to add more at any point, pls, this.

Another suggestion, more of a ui tweak, the ability to mark tapes as viewed without actually viewing them, from the list, would be very nice, or even just a "mark all viewed" button if per-tape is too much hassle. I hate going through and "viewing" 20 3-steppers just to un-green them in the list (and obviously, leaving them green is just not an option, because compulsive.)

I suggested it in another thread, but to reiterate it in this collective suggestion thread as well, the option to watch a replay on self-test suicide would have, on a few occasions, greatly reduced my negative frustration levels with the game when I screw up somehow, and doesn't seem like it would be terribly hard to implement?

those doors are closed when powered, not when unpowered. So the door by the entrance is open initially, until flee down from the dog, which closes it behind you, shutting out the dog. Then you're free to hit the right set of buttons to open the second door.

eeeh, I see what you're saying, but where it seems to me it crosses from the violation that is, by design, part of the game and into something that feels irrational, unfair, and exceptionally frustrating is for starter homes. Almost any starter home built within the initial 2,000 budget ca be quite easily raped by a 2,000 starter tool kit. The starting robber might not benefit, and the builder can just rebuild, but the difference is the robber going into a house with $500 or less in total value carrying a $2000 starter tool kit expects and intends to die, whether to carelessness during a robbery or suicide when their spree exhausts their tools. The starting builder, on the other hand, is trying to crawl out of that starting position, and while they certainly shouldn't expect guaranteed success every time, they also don't intend to be bankrupted and start over without making any forward progress every time, either.

One robber using starting cash to destroy starter homes could fairly easily crush dozens, if not hundreds, of starter homes in an hour.

No idea how this could be resolved in the general case, or I'd've suggested it before, but it does seem like a legitimate issue worth at least considering solutions for.

:edit: feel like I've exaggerated a bit, wanna add that it's certainly possible to build a starter home that can't be trivially brute-forced with only $2k worth of tools, at least not without some scouting first to select the right tools, but building such a starter house isn't trivial for the average player, either.

seems like it, but it's a single session file for however long the game has been running; my current one is 70 megs, the overwhelming majority of that lines of "0" meaning, I assume, "nothing happened"

doubly glad I've discovered this is happening, seems there /is/ a reason to quit the game when afk rather than just leaving it idling in the background, lol

arakira, yeah, this is the infuriating thing in this case for me - I had just done multiple self-tests, and afaik, between those and the last one that I died on, I had changed nothing except switching the conductive lights back to electrified floors. I know I either accidentally changed something, or took a misstep in a magic dance, or something. Knowing exactly what I did wouldn't undo it, but not knowing what I did is driving me nuts, adding insult to self-injury XD

yeah, no fix that's not a worse problem in itself, at least, that I've thought of. I can deal.

My main point of frustration with the game, really, is with my inability to monitor my house 24/7. When someone finally drops a sizeable bounty or pile of tools, it invariably happens when I'm afk for long enough that I'm looted by someone competent before I get back to do something with the money/tools. Grumblegrumble.  But I know that's not really the game's problem, and again, fixes would make worse problems.

Depending on the house and the current attentiveness of the player, you may not have been doing them any favors by jacking the value of their house by a $2000. Nothing I love more than coming back after being afk for a whole hour to find someone died in a silly way dropping thousands of tools, followed by someone a few minutes later attracted by the new value raping my cheap starter house with thousands in tools it was most definitely not designed to withstand.