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bigSadFace wrote:

I will make a donation this evening to the park.  Would you be able to let me know the size of the donation I made?  I think it should be around $53,000 bounty.

Donald David Johnson

omg, thanks

i'm not prepared for such money,

btw...

http://i.imgur.com/WVB29fM.png

now i'm topping the list with 60-70k

really curious about the reasons behind the donation

edit. down into the first 5, but now the park is fully up and running

bigSadFace wrote:

Ah indeed.  I did wonder what went on there.

Death?
http://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/image.php?id=6dfd42d

Tools?
http://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/?id=996b72e

Yup. Of course, now that your money's mine, that previous death doesn't really matter.

I dual-account, Amatiel. Feel free to come rob - nobody's playing the game anymore, so I need the tapes to watch.

Because nobody is playing anymore, I don't think it's possible to go from $2,000 to a successful front-page house without exploiting multi-accounts. If you put up a $2,000 starter house now, even if it's super-lethal, you'll pick up maybe 6-7 dead robbers a day. 5 of them will be $100 bounties, naked scouts, and maybe you'll get a couple with a $1000 toolset. So even if nobody robs you, it'll take a week to make enough money to install a couple of powered trapdoors and some concrete walls.

That won't happen of course, because someone will come and find your safe in the meantime, and either rob you or dump their bounty in there to come and collect with an alt account. Or they will spend $6,000 on tools to come and brute force your house for $2000, because there's hardly anybody playing and those of us that are left like the fun of robbing, even if it's actually a negative return-on-investment for tools.

Multi-accounts probably drove a lot of people away, but unless you are happy to wait 24 hours just to buy a pair of powered doors, now it's the only way to grow. What kills the game more than multi-accounts is a lack of new players coming in.  The creator could change this if he wanted to by making it a pocket-money game, and there would be an influx of people trying it out, of which some would stay and some would not. He doesn't want to do this though.

Hope to see you in my house.

Yeah finaly ! but how long ? my house is not so hard to solve !,  i hope i can stand to the top house for a couple day !

Afraid it's one less player now - I'm out.  I had a very, very promising house and I just pissed it away while naked scouting a $300 broken house! I absolutely adore this game.  I'm not ragequitting - it's just that so few people are playing it now that I haven't the patience to play. I can scout a dozen houses once every 24 hours, or I can build a house and collect $3-400 in bounties per day from it.  I can't see it being possible to build a decent house from scratch now without exploiting my alt account, which I won't do on principle.

I know there are some of you guys doing things to try and promote this game and get players in... if I had the time I'd help out, but to be perfectly honest if anybody should be making efforts to promote this game and get more players on board then it's the guy who is taking £12 a pop for downloading it. Those of us who love this game aren't weirdos or anything - there are tens of thousands of people in the world who would love to play this game as much as we do, it's just that they don't know about it, and/or £12 is too much for them to gamble on an indy game that they don't know they will like until they play it.  Jason puts his own 'no-discount-sale' principles above both the success of his game and the enjoyment of those who have paid him handsomely to play it, and that's a real shame. I personally think this game could become a £2.99 super-hit on Steam, but hey-ho, there-ya-go.

So long TCD, it was fun.

bigSadFace wrote:

I'm currently sitting with a nice collection of paintings I like.  Was tempted to hoover up all the cheap paintings but would rather curate a collection I like looking at.  Please feel free to stop by to take a look.  You're looking for Donald David Johnson's house.  I've left the door ajar. 

Collection:

Woman by the sea
Aero
Dead End
Surge After Hokusai
Storm Center
Inspiration
Sentinel
The Escape
The Knowledge of Good and Evil

very nice, indeed

of those my favorite is Aero. never had the chance to own it, but i've held Cona (Kona?) also by andy nealon, and aero is definitely his best work.  nice grab. perhaps after Blip relieves me of the Dermotillomanians, I'll swing by for some closer looks.

bigSadFace wrote:

And who am I?

Entrance to my house:

http://castledraft.com/editor/WBrJuN

Around 11K

Donald David Johnson