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I don't think it was me (at least I don't remember it). I visited your house a few times, but I never tried to get deeper (apart from last try that ended up really stupidly as you already know ). Really nice house.

I was waiting to see someone use powered doors from David Michael Scott house Your has similar flaw as mine had - 3 saws, 1 explosive, 1 meat and 1 crowbar can get through it right to the vault, if you don't step on the rightmost column of the map after seeing the cat (the cat will be stuck in corner sitting on the power source).

It's a shame that I threw away my tools when I visited you, because I had enough tools to get through it by brute force

Anyway - good luck with your new house!

Jason did not make million posts regarding dual account use and how he can solve it and then just left (like you, you know). Jason did not ask anyone to stop using their second account (like you, you know). Not even after I explicitly sent him email that I built something on my second account that can be abused.
YOU did ask me to stop using my second account, YOU did put fuel into fire on public forums repeatedly (making panic instead of trying to find solution privately with Jason) which has repelled even more players from this game. So yes, I think you are to blame for it.

Jason just stated what we knew before you appeared on the forums. And he also said one thing that you forget to mention, that it is not possible to prevent dual account use and that if someone knows easy solution he should send it to him (apparently that didn't happen or it was not easy solution or it was not a solution at all). I know that you have solution, but it is not implemented yet so it is still just promise and you know what people say about promises: "Nobody can give you more than we can promise you"

There is no reason to argue about this anymore as there are ~70 active houses on main server and I believe ~40 people own them.
You have a great goal before you if you want to create your server and do real cash competition for $25000 and get the money back. You should get to work because it is possible you will not find a single person on this forum in fall. I think you won't be on this forum in fall as well (you already left once not so long time ago).

There are other games taking place like free to play game The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot which has much better graphics, it is easier and it is not so punishing which is much better for general audience. As I said before - game like TCD has small community of people when you compare it to usual games that have great 3d graphics and don't need brain and strong nerves to enjoy them.

If you really plan to implement it, I think you are a bit crazy, but I wish you good luck and I hope you won't lose too much money. I hope that you won't screw up the people that put their hopes into you.

Congrats! Again

40 paintings

Thanks! It was fun. I found the vault just as the sirens came so I tried to use as many tools as possible in 60 seconds (I've entered the vault 5 seconds before cops came) It was definitely confusing house and from what I have mapped I would not be able to solve it without tools yet (creepy dogs all around the place). Thanks for the money and tools - I threw those away when I came to Mitchell's place and accidentally left without using single tool

I never tried it. I just saw some people register the same email multiple times so I assumed it works. If you are sure that you entered it correctly, try different email (it does not email anything to you yet).

Hello everyone, as some of you may have noticed community is trying to attract more people to play the castle doctrine. There was an idea to let people build houses for free so I've just updated all house assets prices to $0 so you can build anything now.

To give you heads up: It's possible that all accounts will be deleted soon and you will have to create new one. This will be required to get new registration process working and to give all players new custom client. Yes, we are working on custom client that will allow you to load your house from castledraft directly to the game!

I will keep you updated. Enjoy the game!

This has been discussed several times. It's not gonna happen. Jason was very clear about it. The main reason you see big decline in players between February and March is because people bought it and didn't like it. That's what steam is about - people just buy stuff they don't like because it's on front page in sale for only few bucks - they try it and then never play it again.

If I read the beginning I see this:

If you think that makes some sense without any further explanation then you really have to be crazy or on some kind of drugs. You should chill a little and maybe try to help instead of insulting everyone. I'm really sorry for you.

btw. I don't have 3 accounts and I don't abuse. You obviously don't have anything productive to say and the only thing you can do is post youtube videos with some shitty text that does not make any sense and insult people just for fun. Cullman is not here so you need someone new to make arguments about shit so you just started new topic about shit to argue about.

You can leave now - the game is dead. You said it. Let us all rest in peace.

The cost calculation is already part of the existing code recomputeChangeCost() in EditHousePage which uses getEditDiff from HouseGridDisplay. The real deal was custom function setHouseMapInProgress in HouseGridDisplay which doesn't overwrite the start map that is being held in separate variable. That variable is being set by setHouseMap call so thats why I needed separate function for that (it's mostly just copy paste code). I think that was all that was needed to get it working, but I'm not sure as it's already some time since I did that one.
I used classic "C" way of loading file as it does not require any additional libraries to be linked into the final binary (as I briefly looked at what DaVinci posted he used 3 includes that I think would increase the final binary size by something around 1MB) and it was more compatible with how strings are handled in existing code.
Now that I think of it, it will be probably better to give people custom client that allows them to load the map from file (it would be better if they could paste the house map right in the game, but that's more complicated).
You should be able to do the buttons easily just by copy pasting the code from other buttons adding the listener and handling the action in action callback (you will get to it quickly when you look at existing code). As you said the issue is where to put it.

Also I had simple solution to the 'undo' issue in mind - if the client is in a state where there is no undo step available, but map is not the same as stored start map, and player press Undo just rollback the map back to the start map (stored in HouseGridDisplay). Moving the buttons to correct places when they overlap should be already handled somewhere in the code so I think we just need to find it and use it.

There are some things that would need to be checked yet - there are variables that hold if backpack or vault changed, if all mandatory objects are placed, etc - all of those are set to the default values from setHouseMap, but I don't think it's correct for all of them and needs to be handled somehow for it to not be so 'hacky'.

I'm really sorry, but I don't have too much time. Improving registration process is one thing, changing the game / server to add trial time (is that really necessary?), tutorials and/or retired houses is another thing. If someone would have time and also be able to write the code and provide a patch I'm willing to do any provided patches on free server (after my review). The server has enough bandwidth, CPU power and memory to be able to hold much more users than main server currently has. It is completely dedicated to community so if you want to use it to get new players I'm really happy! I just don't want it to be payed server so any proposed changes should have that in mind.

Do you mean people that get correctly robbed and can't take it? Probably nothing.

What you can learn from this experience:
- people die, but they don't suddenly forget what they have mapped, so they can (and they will) get back day later to rob you (or map next part of the house)
- combo-locks are pretty straightforward to break and find out the combination (mainly the ones that you used)

Don't take it too seriously. It's the point of this game Enjoy the feelings

Good to see you here again!