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Damn. Must've clubbed a few more wives than I thought. Yeah, that was me.

Well, whoever it was, the house I died in (and probably left a nice bounty too, several 2k starter safe&wife kills before dying), has reminded me why I should never poke through a questionable door without using bricks. Dammit.

Something to add to the collective info here that I've recently had a light-bulb about regarding the meta-game: Don't rob $0, empty 2k start houses. Why? Their next life will be invisible to you for 24 hours. If you suspect such a house belongs to an active 2k scout/robber, camp the =< 2k house range on the list, refresh often. Look for 0/0 houses that weren't there before. It might help to manually ignore houses you know you aren't looking for. It's a bit of a crap-shot, but if you catch the listing page where the house shows up after their 5 minutes into that life, wham: free/easy money. Which if you suck at robbing serious houses like I do, can make or break your income while waiting for someone to die in your house of death.

Finding the starter houses with money spent, but not cleared out, can be a bit more troublesome, as they'll blend into the sub 2k part of the list. Again, if you're looking for those easy marks, ignore houses you don't even want to see on the list. Yeah, they might pop back up if the owner's on and makes an edit/someone dies in them. But the ignore list shouldn't be depopulating itself like wildfire.

As far as the best time to try the above, that's something I'm still working on. I'd say you're most likely to catch a new house on the list if you've just been sui-scouted recently. Or you get a lot of different names you don't recognize from the list showing up on your tapes, none of which have a house up. As for "time of day," that's a total crapshot. Until you start figuring out about how many other active players are on at any given time. Which can be difficult to figure out due to alt accounts that might be in use.

I bet TCD would surpass Flappy Birds in causing people to smash their screens... Never played it, just have heard of many rage-quit/break-stuff stories tied to that game.

Yeah, lately that's been mine as well. Except for last night. First time in a while someone else's house claimed me when I wasn't just screwing around.

Right on. Serious request though, make sure anyone you bring to the game knows to expect some rage-quit moments, etc. And that just because somebody walks through their house/traps in one go with or without tools, does not automatically make it cheating. In my early days I had some really paper houses that looked fantastic in my head. Then some guy comes through, cuts the one wall that broke it all, and clears the place out. The same type of thing will eventually happen to them too.

Get them as well-versed with the game play&mechanics as you can, because that more than anything, will help them get going. Granted, some of the descriptions I've seen on the wiki aren't really clear unless you've encountered some of the "tricks of the trade" for yourself in the game. Usually by dying to them.

edit: Oh, and also let them to know to expect to die in their own house during self-test.

Magic dances+secondary combo locks seem to work nicely too, once they're set up. Get the combo wrong, doesn't matter if you know the dance. Get the combo right... you still might get the dance wrong. Add in a costly-to-bypass/disable commit gate before all that, and bam: meatgrinder. Especially if you make it all look flimsy/easy to defeat.

In the meantime I'll let whoever's trying to crack my place keep beating their head against the wall.

edit: I really need to STOP failing to recognize when a dog around a corner is pinned vs hasn't seen you yet.

If you want to bounty a house, here's a suggestion: Patrick Victor Connel

That's someone's, usually intentionally broken as far as I'm aware, cash-farm house.

The irony is that I actually mentioned this very concept of how to deal with the issue. http://thecastledoctrine.net/forums/vie … 521#p14521

Jorji!

I'm getting tired of your polarized "you're with us or against us" attitude here. Very tired. Stop putting words in our mouths/making up things we've said through pretend paraphrasing.