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Thanks, i'm pretty sure he wasn't paying attention at all; notice how he opened the door even after the camera had scrolled and revealed that he was in trouble. He was probably moving quickly and didn't notice the dog until after he had opened the door. It wouldn't have made a difference anyway; the dog still would have beaten him to the exit, but it just goes to show what a non threatening entrance can accomplish.

Well, here's a very silly death by someone worth quite a lot of money:

It's interesting that trap worked so well, I'll have to use it more when I start out.

Hey, at least he went to the trouble of making an account here instead of just complaining on the steam forums. Hell, I think this might be first out and out rant I've seen on this forum (admittedly I haven't been here as long as most people).

It seems that a lot of people are beginning to realise that you stand a pretty lousy chance of robbing a 14k+ house with 2k of tools. That, combined with the fact that you now start out at your own value on the house list instead of the top, means that you get far more suicide robbers when you're only a few thousand dollars above 2k. I think this is actually a really good thing, as it allows people to get moving, but once they start hitting around 20k or so, they're going to have to start robbing other people around their price range if they want to make more than a couple thousand dollars a day from suicide robbers.

I still run into a lot of people who never rob anyone else though (I find only cash in their vault even though their wife is dead, they live for ages, etc), which I don't really understand. Building your house and watching people die in it is fun, but the really enjoyable part of the game for me is blowing apart 30k+ houses with my fortune and stealing my favorite paintings once I get to the front page. I would wonder if these people even play the game anymore, but its obvious that they do because they sell the tools they get and occasionally buy paintings.

Anyway yes, the drop off of new players is probably playing a part in all this as well, and the middle class is becoming more and more prominent with each passing day, but I'm looking forward to seeing how this changes the game. I've only been playing for a few weeks, but the dynamic of Castle Doctrine has already changed considerably during that time, awesome stuff

Did you also own blio and watermelon? I stole the two of them and sky together with the same robbery. Did I steal it from you, or did I take it from someone else I wonder?

It's hard to imagine castle doctrine without paintings. I got most of mine through theft, but I've bought sarsaparilla day and sarsaparilla night. I'm trying to find sarsaparilla sunset, but no luck so far (actually, if someone could let me know what my name is, I would appreciate it. I'm on the front page with about 38k value and the above two paintings, as well as watermelon and the fake version of sky).

Paintings are a big plus when I'm considering robbing a house, that way if I don't make any money or even lose some I still get something out of it. It's almost always cheaper to steal really nice paintings than it is to pay 15-18k for them on the auction house as well.

Ah, the wonders of paradox circuits. Someone more familiar with electronics can give the full picture, but in short paradox circuits form a loop that causes all the electronics in that loop to turn on if the any part of the loop is severed, say by a pair of wire cutters chopping up an electric floor. The wiki also has a section on them and other advanced electronics: http://thecastledoctrine.gamepedia.com/ … ox_Circuit.

I lost a great house to one of these bloody things, electric floors are so unpredictable...

Bloody commitment gates, how do they work?

It's ridiculous the number of 2k suicide robbers who have no clue how a doggy death commitment gate works and drug the dog immediately, screwing themselves royally. I'd honestly say only about half of the robbers make it past that first trapdoor.