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I'm not even sure it's a bad thing. Consider this: If people have the opportunity to share multiple variations of a house, they can change dances, combo locks, vault locations and so on for each. That would prevent people from knowing how exactly a newly spawned house works, if they have solved in an earlier instance. I know the solution to almost all the bot-houses and chain rob them without tools as it pleases me. Would there be multiple variations of the houses, then one would need to scout each re-spawn, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

Yeah, I lost my temper after roughly 100 attempts and went brute.

Don't, it's a cool house, why spoil it? ^^ Still gonna take it, since you're asking for it

Yeah, it is. Can not find any other bug, so good job, I guess. Now, how do we get some traffic on this thing? ))

Excellent ideas, Frosty.! Gonna check over the WE.

Frosty, some additional thoughts:

- Some of the bot houses spawn with cash only deposited at the wife, but with an empty/cracked vault. So if a player reaches the vault, but his way back is blocked, he'll die, because he can not exit through the vault.

- I think it would be good to offer the "Share Map with Bots" option with (or after) the Screen of Death, too. Chances are much higher that people will share their maps after they got killed, than while their chars are alive and well.

Cheers

It is, works like a charm now. Here are my first impressions:

- The account switching works smooth and super fast. One thing to consider though: If you switch accounts while in your house, your character gets automatically and instantly removed from the house - which in turn puts the house on the house list, so others can enter it. Maybe it would be better to leave that decision to the player and list it only after the regular 5 idle-minutes. But maybe that's not possible due to the client's mechanics, I guess it evacuates you from your house once you quit the game (which is essentially what happens when you switch, from the client's perspective, probably).

Also, if you die, you can not switch to the other account without first clicking Fresh Start. In other words, you can not stay dead with one account and play with the other, should you wish to do so. Quitting the client doesn't solve that either, since it starts with the last account you played with, before quitting.

- Love the rankings, tempted to start from scratch to get the full data of my career(s).

- Love the house storage/restore/show/share function, it's perfect. Are the credits given to the game-generated character name? Guess they are, since there is no unique, eternal player name. Would be nice could players input an overall moniker for themselves (like "Frosty" or "Protagonizzle"), for that purpose.

Cheers

Wow, you are a fast coder. Gonna download the client now, thanks!

Hey Frosty, thanks again for setting up that server and for the client modifications. I'm fooling around there since 2 days or so, and I really like it. You don't encourage multiple accounts, but, full disclosure, I set up two, for the lack of other players, and because I never had the opportunity to do that.

Thought I'd give you some feedback:

-->  I LOVE the house saving function. It makes the game so much more enjoyable if you have at least your base build saved and can rebuild it with a click, necessary funding provided.

--> The 'bot houses' are an excellent idea, too, they bring a constant stream of now content and cash. And it's super nice that they vary in difficulty, particularly if the easier ones are designed in a still entertaining way.

I'm not so sure about this bit here, though. You wrote:

"Maps created by players are automatically added to the list of predefined houses, if they fulfill certain criteria.
Maps created by players can be spawned as bot maps, after a certain amount of time since their creation has passed".

This will make the more paranoid builders uncomfortable, I imagine. Should you plan to further improve your game mechanics I propose a donation button that lets people voluntarily contribute their house designs. This would let players decide when they are ready to part from their old place and move on to a fresh layout.

--> Particularly with the great changes that you have implemented I think that the game would be even more interesting if people would play with 2 accounts, as a standard. True, you can harden your house much faster with the income of the second guy, but on the other hand you are under much heavier attack, since others have those means too. My guess is that this would make the game a bit 'faster', more entertaining, and a bit more casual, in a good way.

Anyhow, that's my two cents. Thanks again for your excellent improvements and the server, I really enjoy it. Hope to see more players there soon.

What's up with that Ambrose house? It's broken, is it not? Cat missing at entrance? Or do I just don't get it?