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You can still do that.

No I think he means a permanent library onto which you can load the tapes you liked most. It's certainly what I think.

And maybe the video tapes won't reset anymore with our death somewhen in the future. Just be saved on the hard disk as files that have the game files as dependencies (like Supreme Commander does it) to make it much smaller. Perhaps in house-specific folders.

Wow nice. I've done a really stupid mistake when getting back into my broken home. No security tapes to watch. I wonder if it was effective at all or if it got broken quickly. People can take too many items with them. Everything is for naught just because my walls weren't 8+. I guess my attempt to be nice and make the way back out possible was also not the best idea. It made it probably too obvious, but I didn't feel like being a complete asshole.

Would anyone who remembers my household please tell me the numbers that you last saw?

Either way, here the basic schematics of my most important traps, not completely true to scale. It's probably horribly inefficient, but I liked it anyway. The extra wiring is anti-wallbreaking security, the completely redundant double entry was for no reason carried over from an earlier design.

If this makes it in then they should naturally fade after a while either way (maybe introduce a rating mechanic like in Dark Souls!). And instead of the owner removing them for money, he should be able to place his own notes for a fee to mislead people (Dark Souls again).

If he stepped on a grate such that he should have died, pretty damn sure. Otherwise it could be a glitch I guess?

Looks funny.

I guess I'm not avantgarde enough to find that kind of thinking even remotely intriguing, let alone convincing.

Ah yes, that is quite different from what went through my mind.

Though additionally I would say my idea was really bad. Because making a death even less costly means people are even more likely to just go on a brute force retry spree.

I don't think you really can balance this game. The only way I could think of is if there was a set amount of money everyone has available for their dungeon, altogether remove the moneymaking mechanic and instead incentivise robbery with something else, like unlocks after a certain number of successful robberies or whatever. I really don't know.

I only killed a family once, and that was just a reaction to an over the top deathtrap dungeon.

Yeah I switched to that too since then. Works a bit better. You actually run up against puzzles!

It's not cheating in the silly classical PC-game sense, but it's cheating in the sense of loophole abuse. As the creator himself said, he was not prohibiting these locks because it's really hard to do, not because he thinks it deserves to be a part of the game. That's just an unfortunate yet unavoidable side effect.

I mean sure, having no element of luck is definitely unavoidable if you want to have an effective trap dungeon that doesn't take 30 hours to plan out, but it's a difference if that means 1/1000 players get even a chance or 1/100.

Maybe someone let the dogs out by breaking the wrong walls.

I once killed the children of a household because the starting trap annoyed me so much that I felt the need to punish him. I hope he doesn't manage to wiggle his way around that one. *evil cackle*

My proposed solution instead would be more starting money so you could have more fun with more elaborate traps right off the bat, making a loss less severe.That "rich can buy permadeath protection"-idea is just going to turn into a pointless moneysink because you'll die in the rich's impenetrable fortresses anyway, again and again and again. Then no one is rich anymore (well okay, the top 5 most impenetrable fortresses will be) and everyone sinks back into Sleeping Beauty mode.

This is so much more comfortable than running around all the time. Thanks a lot!