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Hah, I would consider 20 houses pretty good improvement. And I've seen paintings go as low as 1 dollar (late last year I think). My point is, this game isn't becoming less popular, but more.

Well surely you've heard the sirens (one minute before the deadline). It's been a while since I have (not an active player), so can't actually remember.

That's the first time I hear of people cheating in that way.
I would definitely pay for that privilege. It really sucks to have to run back to your computer every 5 min while cooking dinner.

I found having to manually shift parts of the map over one or two tiles frustrating.

Limited lives for free and unlimited lives for $X is basically the same as a try-before-you-buy. So that's perfectly legitimate.

But here's an idea: after your limited lives run out, allow people to still build houses (or bases or whatever you call them in TH), but not to rob other people. Then some fraction of people (say, kids without credit cards) will continue to play (which is clearly great for everyone else) yet I can't imagine this free option dissuading many from paying for the unlimited lives if it's not too expensive.

Edit: I will definitely be happy if there are improvements to the wife and kids part of the game. They way they work in TCD is just for thematic purposes, but as you've changed the theme it doesn't make sense to keep all those gameplay hindering constraints.

Ah. Honestly, I don't understand that one; must have forgotten part of the ruleset.

Yes, I can see that the fixed number of steps was patched, but it's not clear that wireless electronics are now impossible by making use of the fact that the calculation stops once the state repeats, which is a variable number of steps. Which seems to imply that disconnected circuits can influence one another.

Oh wow! I never knew about those old threads. I was reading the detailed rules for electronics on the wiki and believed that as described they allow wireless communication, but I never tested it. The "Wireless transmission and Step-limit exploits" thread is pretty long, so I'm not clear on whether my idea is still possible or that the wiki information is outdated.

I didn't try your house but I'll have a look later if it's still there.

Why, have you lost the email with the download link?

Hiya. 6 homes? There are 22 up at the moment. The decline in number of players has halted (or at least, there are more people playing at this time of year); I think the fewest houses I ever saw was 4-5, and that was a few months ago.

Wow. That looks like it was a nearly toolless run?

Looks like Passive never found the time to upgrade the house

Ah, great.

I don't know what would be a good way to learn basics. I just read about topics as I need to. Generally the trick to solving any problem to first obtain an error message, and then google that. Despite years of dealing with them, I still know nothing about 90% of the problems I encounter. A lot of programs will print error messages if run from a terminal which are completely invisible otherwise, so that's always the first thing to try. Also, sometimes when an application crashes it won't actually print a message like "Segmentation Fault" but will appear to simply exit, and you'd need to run under gdb to discover that it's crashing. It's often possible to do some more advanced poking around with gdb to get clues about why something is crashing (eg, somewhere in a function that looks like it's doing window initialisation). There are also system message logs but those will generally only contain messages useful for debugging hardware, filesystems, etc, not normal applications. (In this case though there probably would have been messages about your graphics driver)

I was hoping that ldd would show that something was wrong, but no such deal.

Does it just cleanly exit when you run it? What if you run it under gdb? Run "gdb CastleDoctorineApp" and then enter "r" at the prompt to start it and see what happens.

I doubt very much that that warning message has anything to do with the problem. I get it for other programs. TCD isn't even a Qt application.

Is that the only thing printed to the console when you try to run it? Last update of what, TCD or your system? Either way, a shared library problem sounds far more likely to me. What does "ldd CastleDoctorineApp" print?

Wow, so you bought all the most expensive art?

Oh, so Passive is Walker. I liked your house. Seems really insecure, though it did trick me once. Did you purposefully not use sticky switches everywhere so that people wouldn't destroy all the power supplies?

A fun house doesn't necessarily have to be easy to solve. I like seeing novel traps which can actually be solved without brute forcing but with a lot of reasoning (sadly my current house certainly does not fall in this category).